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PARADISE NOW


Photo by Fahri Almut

Founded in 2020, Paradise Now is a Multimedia Artist Collective (Bryan Tan, Jay Ho) whose artworks assimilate a diversity of daily influences drawn from perception through observation.

With a penchant for amalgamating incompatible elements, Paradise Now grows as a natural synergy of conflicting histories and personal experiences - they seek to explore the notion of space/mental space, memories, emotions, symbolism and metaphors through multidisciplinary approaches.

Paradise Now is a repository for their thoughts and memories that would otherwise fade away with the business of daily living.

Works:
The Passenger Project, 2023
Please Return All Stolen Artifacts, 2022
Good Day, 2022
Neighbor X Paradise Now, 2022
Welcome to Paradise, 2021
archetypes, 2020
Making Sense of A Tiger Attack, 2020
Photography by Jonathan Tan


The Passenger Project
2023
Shimano Cycling World
Curated by Rose Wei

We live our everyday lives commuting from one place to another: where many force themselves into our lives, they also leave abruptly without a trace. As passengers of the city, traveling becomes a non-obtrusive act that exposes us to moments of encounters and departures, bringing different people and diverse lifestyles closer together. What can we hold on to when living in the moment unrestingly?

This project is supported by the Platform Projects Curatorial Award overseen by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore @ntu_ccasingapore. 

The Passenger Project
Please Return All Stolen Artifacts
Good Day
Neighbor X Paradise Now
Welcome to Paradise
archetypes
Making Sense of A Tiger Attack




Please Return All Stolen Artefacts
2022
Faux bronze vase, wood, primer and acrylic paint
64 x 13 x 13 cm

Inspired by current affairs in Singapore which surround the alleged theft of cultural property on an institutional level, this work titled “Please return all stolen artefacts” explores ideas of cultural repatriation, contestation and authenticity.

Since 2020, Paradise Now has been amalgamating incompatible elements — from conflicting histories to personal experiences, painting to emergent media to reflect on the complexities of our lives and our conditions.

Here, the duo continues this thread of inquiry by embracing the contrast between materials of opposing nature.

Intervening with a faux bronze sculpture originally displayed in Sidley Austin’s Singapore lobby, the work is reconfigured with wood to resemble an artillery shell.

“Please return all stolen artefacts” represents the artists’ rumination around broader topics of international contestation of property and the origins of cultural artefacts.


The Passenger Project
Please Return All Stolen Artifacts
Good Day
Neighbor X Paradise Now
Welcome to Paradise
archetypes
Making Sense of A Tiger Attack




Good Day
I_S_L_A_N_D_S
23.07.2022
Today I walked in the sun and streets
of this city: seeing nothing, learning nothing,
being nothing, and coming back to my room
-Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski

Good Day is a response to the conditions of season. The collective in transit touches on the idea of physical displacement yet remaining in synergy during the course of their practice.

Employing the visual language that Paradise Now has forged from over two years of working together, Good Day is a transmutation of images and subject matters that influence them, along with their thoughts and memories - as a collective and as individuals.


The Passenger Project
Please Return All Stolen Artifacts
Good Day
Neighbor X Paradise Now
Welcome to Paradise
archetypes
Making Sense of A Tiger Attack



Neighbor X Paradise Now
Shopfront collaboration with @Neighborinyourhood
Vinyl print, Frogtape, Custom LED letters, Privacy Window Film, Mirror Finished Aluminium Composite Panel
March 2022

The Passenger Project
Please Return All Stolen Artifacts
Good Day
Neighbor X Paradise Now
Welcome to Paradise
archetypes
Making Sense of A Tiger Attack


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