xiashanle

xia·shan·le·ˌ下山了

verb: to descend a mountain or temple on elevated ground by walking or floating on a cloud. A cultural reference to contemporary Hong Kong and Chinese movies where the protagonist has attained a sufficient level of kung fu from a famed martial arts practitioner, usually with a white whisky beard so the movie can have a happy ending. 

noun: refers to mentees, interns, and ex-staff who have worked and trained with us. And taught us a great deal in return.  Always part of the family.

Akai Chew 
Akai Chew works and lives in Singapore. With a background in architecture, he is an artist and practicing urban explorer. The city is the artist’s muse and playground. His art practice explores the profound relationship between history, humanity, and the urban environs.

Dave Lim
Dave Lim (b. 1994, Singapore) is a visual artist and filmmaker. His work has won multiple awards such as the National Youth Film Awards (2020) and the Objectifs Documentary Award (2019). He graduated from Yale-NUS with BA (Hons) in Urban Studies. 

Andrew Tan
Andrew Tan Wei Aun is a photographer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia who currently calls Toronto his home. Previously, Andrew was the Head of Strategic Partnerships of General Assembly Toronto. It was during his time there that he came up with the idea of Unboxed — a photography series on the intersections of masculinity and straight male friendships.

Clara Lim
Clara Lim is a moving image artist and designer based in Singapore. Working under the moniker clarrot, she creates mixed-media digital interventions and generative images from sampling open-source visual culture. Her work features commentaries on social issues in the areas of consumerism and post-capitalism.

Kuik Yi Ke
Kuik Yi Ke ( b.1994, Malaysia) is a video journalist, photographer, writer. She loves to explore new things through her lens and create works in mixed mediums. Her writing has garnered awards from the Hua Zong Reportage Literature Award, while her photography artwork has been exhibited in Wonder Foto Festival and published in a photography collection book, under the name of The Reporter, a renowned online news media in Taiwan.

Ernest Wu
Ernest Wu (b.1991) is an artist based in Singapore that uses photography and moving images to explore spatial relationships and painterly aesthetics. His projects use unconventional methods of creating images structured around the limitations of the camera and pose questions of existence and the reality of things. He graduated in 2018 from Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design, and Media with a BFA (Hons) in Photography and Digital Imaging. 

Zul Zulkiflee
Zulkhairi Zulkiflee (b. 1991) is an artist-curator committed to a practice centered on Malayness and its social ontology. He works across multiple mediums, particularly photographic prints, fabric, and found objects. He received a BA(Hons) Fine Arts from Lasalle College of the Arts (Goldsmiths, University of London) and a double Diploma in Art Teaching and Education (Art) from both Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and National Institute of Education.

Naomi Goddard
Naomi is a Taipei-based photographer covering stories in East Asia with a focus on culture, human rights, and social movements. She graduated with First Class Honours in BA Photography at The University of the West of England. 

Bridget Noetzel
Bridget is a collaborator, translator, and producer for many artists in China. She graduated from Yale University with a dual degree in History of Art and Chinese Language and Literature in 2009 and has extensive experience in translation and editing for arts publications, catalogs, and exhibitions.

Elliot Lee
Elliot Lee is a commercial photographer based in Jakarta and Singapore. He runs Studio Three Sixteen in Singapore. 

Maxine Lim
Maxine Lim, born 2004, is a student studying at the International School of Beijing. She had the honor of working with Chow and Lin over the summer of 2020 as a researcher. Though their outstanding mentorship and coaching, she learnt about different research-based approaches to current issues and how to communicate those issues through art.