2007
14 December | Tourist Attraction Today by Dan Yeo enter

21, 22 & 23 September | Fetterfield, A Singapore Performance Art Event enter

11 September | Freedom of Daydreams, Mothers of Imagination by Lee Wen enter

30 June | quis custodiet custiam? by menno aden enter

18 May | What will you dream tonight? by Jacklyn Soo enter

5 March | Your Mother Hand by Tang Da Wu enter

4 February | Hang Out. A Private Event enter

20 January to 21 January | Sleepover. A Private Event enter

2006
31 December | The Artists VIllage 12-hour Event enter

20 October | Kill nothing but time...by Robert Ern-Yuan Guth enter

9 June | A 100 Tents enter

10 - 14 April | Fetterfield, A Singapore Performance Art Event enter

14 February | I M Breather by Jeremy Hiah enter

2005
21 October | Your Head by Tang Da Wu enter

5 October | Help Paint A Prettier Picture group exhibition enter

8 August | Ring Around A Rosie group exhibition enter

7 May | DIscoverY by Cheng Guang Feng enter

2004
31 December | RAW by Jeremy Hiah enter



Kill nothing but time,
Take nothing but photographs,
Leave nothing but footprints


A photographic installation by
Robert Ern-Yuan Guth


Opening reception at Your MOTHER Gallery:
20 Oct 2006, Friday, 7.00 pm

Exhibition continues until 19 November 2006

See Photos of the Opening. ~ Here!



How closely do you really look at the ground as you walk? If you see a detail that tickles your fancy do you stop, consider it in its wider implications and history and try to record it in your mind or on paper? Is the city just full of examples of the way people and plants interact? Do you get a forensic thrill looking at footprints and rubbish on the street. Most importantly do you think that the way you see the world is noteworthy enough that others should see it too. If the answer is yes then you might be Robert Guth.

In this work Robert encourages the viewer to slow down, to stop and examine the banal sidewalk that they walk over. To take their eyes off the bright lights and hoardings that grab for their attention. To re-examine what they walk over everyday and share with him the pace of discovery and stillness that brings the sidewalk to life.

The form of the work is a series of images that cover the floor, one image to a tile. Each image is made from a single scan of the pavement that is reproduced at slightly larger than life than life size.

At best it will create an immediacy to the floor and a more careful re-examination of the banal sidewalk when walking in the street.

At worst it will look like a particularly dirty floor.




About the Artist


Robert Ern-Yuan Guth was born in Australia and is of mixed parentage. His mother is Singaporean and his father is Australian. He has been taking photographs of his environment with subjects such as portraits, landscapes and nature since his youth. He has been exhibiting solo since 1993 as an 18 year old. This is his 10th solo exhibition and his first in Singapore.

 

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