Tiffany Singh

Tiffany Singh

Our lecture with Tiffany Singh was quite interesting, I expected an artist who exhibitions her work just like all other artists, but, she impressed mewith her projects as they were community based works. A great example of her community based work would be her project "Table of Exchange", which was a project which involved 77 of her sculptures on presentation in Albert Park, instead of her work being sold, she wanted the works to be traded for items.

Her project "knock on the sky and listen to the sound"was a project that involved a large number of wind chimes hanging from a ceiling of an art gallery, but the work wasn't the thing that impressed me, rather it was how the people interacted with the work, she quoted "I am more interested in what people do with my work rather than the work itself". The main objective of this project was for the public to take a wind chime with them and decorate it, and in due time, bring the wind chime back to be hung from a tree in the middle of the gallery. I found this amazing, the journey's these wind chimes go through after leaving the gallery, one of thethe wind chimes ended up in Hong Kong, which I thought was unbelievable.

Color

Color is an a key factor in Tiffany's work, she quotes "color is what binds everything together", her color palette resembles the color's from the rainbow, or in her case the 7 chakras system, which I found very interesting that she would use these colors in her work, these colors have very important meanings and how she applies them to her work is somewhat unorthodox, but very bright and full of life (which in my opinion is the purpose of the 7 chakras). Her work involves a lot of religious and cultural motifs, like the sculptures of the Virgin Mary, and other religious gods, and in my opinion, her way of decorating them with these colors is somewhat of a celebration or embracing these items, which in a way links to India's "Holi Festival", a day where the people throw colored powder (I don't know if they're spices) at each other, a way of celebrating two of their gods making love.