The Kampong Gelam Way

This mural plays with perspective and structure, imitating the sights and sounds experienced in an alleyway in Kampong Gelam. It is a collage of the people and textures the artist has experienced in the precinct. A stylistic glitch that is repeated across the artwork is a metaphor for the disruption the pandemic has brought, while the rope represents the community’s tight bond in overcoming such hurdles together.

SPAZ

@hellazaps

SPAZ (Laurie Maravilla), a Singapore-based urban artist and researcher from Manila, Philippines, is a two-time recipient of the LASALLE Scholarship, and the first Southeast Asian to win the Takifuji International Art Award in 2013. She co-founded The Solidarity Movement, an initiative that seeks to establish and document graffiti and street art as a culture and art discipline in the Southeast Asian region. Her works and writings possess a radical political slant, expressing her personal experiences of motherhood, politics of gender and self-determination. To that, she has also established Rebel Daughters, a movement that empowers women in male-dominated industries.

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