Rear Window
Jeremy Sharma
Neighbourhood: Marine Parade

A series of carbon drawings with colour pencils on paper. They were made in a little room with a window facing a small field that separates my block of flats from the next block. In between these blocks that form sort of an open compound in an old housing estate, I observed daily, from time to time, on my lower-floor, these scenes where residents, workers and strangers start to appear as recurring fictional characters from my rear window. I started snapping pictures with my phone and selected a few to be printed out for tracing and drawing. I started to think about these spaces I am observing and the spaces on paper, intending for a new relationship, not just between seeing and drawing, but also medium and subject.

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BACKYARD explores the phenomenon of how events become news. This collection of reports seeks to create a spatial tapestry of “news” contributed by artists living in different parts of Singapore. By inviting them to document the happenings within their neighbourhoods within specific windows of time, BACKYARD presents artists’ documentations as news reports spanning across 12 months. Each report contributes to a year-long narrative map of Singapore, positioning the artist as reporter. BACKYARD is an art space that takes place in the form of dossiers containing news reports by Singapore based artists.