“Spaces in Singapore seems to always disappear quickly, to make space for newer and better developments. Growing up here, I have found nostalgia to be even more compelling, due to the fast disappearance of structures and buildings. The work that you see here is composed of digital scans of various objects relating to the space I’ve spent so much time in: the hawker centres in Singapore. Are they remnants of my memory?” – Guo Yi Xiu Singaporean multidisciplinary artist and educator Guo Yi Xiu accentuates on the element of play in her practice. She believes “what separates the ordinary from the everyday and transforms it into the spectacular, is the power of ‘play’”. On offer here is her interpretation of a hawker centre – composed of found objects, deftly arranged according to specific colours and then manipulated digitally – producing a pixelated or mosaic-like effect. Guo Yi Xiu was the winner of the 27th UOB Painting Of The Year Competition (2008). She won first prize for the Representational Category for her oil on canvas work entitled Comfort Zone. Her solo exhibitions included Artificial Love with OCBC Bank and Galerie Sogan and Art, Singapore (2014) and The Departed at Galerie Sogan and Art, Singapore (2012). In 2013, she was the youngest artist to participate in the fourth edition of Singapore Biennale themed If The World Changed. Then aged 24, she created a site-specific installation, Paranoia, by weaving multi-coloured raffia strings into a green criss-cross fence that had been pre-fixed onto a metal frame.