A Little Bead of Work
17 Jan–6 Feb 2025
10am–10pm
The Arts House at the Old Parliament, Outdoor Lawn
Free
A Little Bead of Work invites visitors to explore themes of visibility, identity and connection through the playful yet thoughtful act of stringing words together on bracelets with glow-in-the-dark alphabet beads. Inspired by Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Empty Lots, the work is set across illuminated planter beds on the lawn of The Arts House at the Old Parliament, encouraging reflection on how words and connections take shape, grow and extend beyond physical space.
Guided activation of the installation will take place on Fridays to Sundays (6–10pm).
Kray Chen is a visual artist based in Singapore. He graduated from Goldsmith’s College of Art in 2014 with a Master of Fine Arts. Chen’s practice largely deals with lived experience and body politics, reflecting on the body and the self within the economical machine, as well as observing the fissures and ruptures of the psyche that arise from the parallel quests to progress and to conserve. In 2017, he was awarded the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council in Singapore.
