A duo presentation of Wei Leng Tay and Brandon Tay exploring perception across archives and speculative fiction. Wei Leng reworks archive photos of a 1963 ikebana competition in Penang. She uses photography’s material and historical layers to explore cultural translation and hybridisation. Brandon’s sculptures Serpent Vessel and Votive Spiral expand on scientific epiphanies, such as the discovery of DNA double helix and Friedrich August Kekulé’s dream of benzene, as myth-inflected narratives.
Wei Leng Tay (b. 1978) is a Singapore artist awarded the 2025 Alexander Tutsek Photography Grant. Exhibitions include: National Gallery Singapore; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur; Arter, Istanbul; and Asian Art Biennial, Taichung. Her work explores how constructions of identity and history relate to photographic materiality and representation.
Brandon Tay (b. 1981) is a Singapore-born, Shanghai-based artist working across sculpture, installation, moving image, and speculative systems. His practice explores how myth, technology, and historical knowledge become entangled through interfaces, infrastructures, and symbolic forms. Tay has exhibited individually and collaboratively at platforms including the Singapore Biennale, transmediale, and the National Communication Museum (Melbourne), among others.