Dawn Ng
  • Dawn Ng 'Avalanche II' 2017. Courtesy Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.

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Dawn Ng

Avalanche

20 January–18 April 202420 Jan–18 Apr 2024

#DawnNg

Dawn Ng is a Singaporean artist whose practice deals with time, memory, and the ephemeral. For Avalanche, she crafted pigmented blocks of ice, then filmed them melting away. She shot them against a blank background, offering no sense of scale—they could be tiny or massive.

Using time lapse, she compressed hours of real time into minutes of screen time. But, even sped up, the effect remains meditative. Manipulating our sense of space and time, Ng fast tracks glacial decay while evoking calming waterfalls and collapsing ice shelves. Portraying the fluidity of time as a ‘riot of colors’ that swell and ebb, forming rivers and pools, Ng turns entropy into eye candy.

Artist Bio

Dawn Ng is a Singaporean artist, who works across sculpture, photography, light, film, collage, painting, and installation. Her practice explores time, memory, and the ephemeral. She has exhibited at the Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Paris Art Fair, Lille3000, Jeju Biennale, and Art SG. Her work is in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum, and she has been commissioned by the Hermès Foundation, ArtScience Museum, and the National Gallery Singapore.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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