Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee
Research Presentation
 

Creatif Compleks (2018) is the culmination of Michael Lee’s reflection on the function of the artist’s studio within the arts ecology of a city. The work features a diagram of various configurations of the artist’s home/studio.

Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee

17 March - 16 September 2018

Developed during his residency at NTU CCA Singapore, Creatif Compleks (2018) is the culmination of Michael Lee’s reflection on the function of the artist’s studio within the arts ecology of a city. The work takes the form of a diagram about a hypothetical property development consisting of various configurations of the artist’s home/studio. The use of LED light strips, a popular fixture in advertising and interior design, alludes to latent apprehensions about the development and promotion of the arts in Singapore which today are, arguably, at a feverish pitch. Informed by myths and fantasies of artists in their studios, the work takes a speculative leap into the utopian and the absurd.

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Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee, March 17 – September 16 2018, Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee, March 17 – September 16 2018, Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee, March 17 – September 16 2018, Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee, March 17 – September 16 2018, Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee, March 17 – September 16 2018, Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
Creatif Compleks by Michael Lee, March 17 – September 16 2018, Courtesy of NTU CCA Singapore.
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Contributors
Michael Lee
Michael Lee
Artist-in-Residence
Singapore

Michael Lee (b. 1972, Singapore) is an artist, curator, and publisher based in Singapore. Researching urban memory with a marked interest in loss, its contexts, and implications, Lee’s observations often merge personal and national narratives and are variously translated into objects, diagrams, situations, curations, and texts. He has presented his work in solo exhibitions at Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore, 2014; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2013; Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2010. His work has also been included in international group exhibitions such as Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, China, 2014, and Asia Triennial Manchester, United Kingdom, 2011, among others. Lee is the founding director of Studio Bibliothèque, a platform which facilitates experiments in art making, curating, and publishing. He was a co-curator of An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore Biennale, 2016. His editorial projects include the series Corridors: Notes on the Contemporary (Singapore: Studio Bibliothèque, 2013) and Who Cares: 16 Essays on Curating in Asia, co-edited with Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, (Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space, 2010.)

He was awarded the APBF Signature Art Prize People’s Choice Award in 2011 and the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award (Visual Arts) in 2005.