RÉVOLUTION! - A Fools' Dialogue


Alliance Française de Singapour, Singapore








Alliance Française de Singapour, Gallery, Level 2Curator, Partnership Lead & Exhibition Producer

Initiated and developed the collaboration between Mr. Lim’s Shop of Visual Treasures and Alliance Française de Singapour, shaping the exhibition from initial concept to public presentation. Acted as curator and main project lead, overseeing the narrative, artist selection, spatial direction, installation coordination, collector relations, and artwork sales. Led private tours for potential buyers and collectors, translating the exhibition’s curatorial vision into meaningful acquisition conversations and contributing to the sale of nine artworks.


Attendance:
1284


RÉVOLUTION! - A Fools' Dialogue brings together twenty local outsider artists, each responding directly to an artwork by a revolutionary French master. These are our riff-raffs and rule-breakers, inspired yet challenging the standard set by France with a fearless and frank perspective. By answering and reinterpreting French references, these artists define their own Singaporean stories, engaging a necessary dialogue between a young culture and an established canon.

Revolutions begin when fools have dialogues. It takes a unique courage to be unafraid of tradition, a bravery France pioneered through the artists referenced who strayed away from conventions and redefined art itself. Today, the Singapore art scene remains nascent and raw. In the wake of the French trailblazers, this show aims to highlight the path Singaporeans are carving for themselves.


ZONE 1: Nature, Translated  

French landscapes, gardens, flowers, and animals are reimagined through Singaporean memories, climates, and ways of seeing. In this section, nature becomes a shared language: transformed by place, emotion, science, and personal history.


Featured Works:
Andy Yang - Drifting Towards Ecstasy
Claude Monet - Water Lillies

Christine R. Bay - Flora’s Zephyr

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - 
 Flora and Zephyr


Dewi Andini -  Memento Mori  

Claude Monet -  Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden


ZONE 2: Forms of Revolution

This section explores how artists respond to French masterpieces not only by changing the image, but by changing the medium itself. Through light, photography, newspaper, print, texture, and experimental surfaces, the works question identity, love, suffering, mortality, violence, and belief.



Featured Works:

Clarice Tjahyadi - Belle et Bonne, After Ingres’ Madame Moitessier


Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -  Madame Moitessier
Iyvone Kho -  Transient Echo  
Claude Monet - Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows
Fiona Koh -  After the Market
Pierre-Auguste Renoir -  Les Poissons
Ezzam Rahman - Three shades darker
Auguste Rodin - The Three Shades 
Vasan Sitthiket - 2 Dancers



Henri Matisse - Blue Nude i - ivI
Jeremy Hiah - Paradise Terrorize Dance 


Henri Matisse - Dance  
Mojoko - Vanity

Auguste Toulmouche - Vanité


ZONE 3: Faces of Self and Society

The final section turns toward people: portraits, bodies, gestures, and characters. Here, French references become mirrors for contemporary Singapore, exploring how individuals see themselves, how communities are represented, and how social stories are carried through the human figure.


Featured Works:

Noc Vvyne Lim - A Stray Cat’s Abode #25 based on Interior by Marisot  
Berthe Morisot -  Interior
LIYU -  Sunday afternoon on 
the island of Singapore
Georges Seurat - Un dimanche après-midi à l'île de la Grande Jatte

Riki Antoni - Friendship 1
Henri Rousseau - L'Enfant à la poupée 
Ou Ruiting - Anger and/or sorrow
Suzanne Valadon - Self-Portrait
Jewell Dalina - ‘magdalene’
Hugues Merle - Mary Magdalene in the cave 
Tiffany Yao - Welcome to Singapore
Frédéric Soulacroix - Afternoon Tea for Three (or Tea Time)
Samuel Chen -  Traditional Breakfast  

Édouard Manet -  Un bar aux Folies Bergère
Samuel Chen - Garden of Prosperity

Édouard Vuillard - Femme en robe rouge
Huang Zhanwen - The King of Clowns 



Bernard Buffet - The Clown with the Green Background

Vania Gunarti - “a bird, not yet”
Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin -Still Life with Partridge and Pear 
Michael Cu Fua - Orbit of Rehearsal


Edgar Degas - Little Dancer of Fourteen Years 


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