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Breath BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice
Li Weijin, Charmaine
Video Installation
3 x (12cm x 15cm)
Student Bio Project Description
Charmaine Li (b. 1999) is a practicing artist based in “Breath is the manifestation of speech”. The fear of
Singapore, and recently graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine exposing the vulnerable self to the people around me
Art Practice at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). causes me to conceal and suppress the pain, struggles and
She is a graduate with a Diploma in Art Teaching from NAFA. guilt. With that tendency to find a distraction to occupy my
Most recently in 2020, in ‘The Grad Expectations 2020”, mind, I formulate a way of escape to prevent myself from
NAFA’s annual graduation showcase, her work was selected dealing with the trauma and the impact it brings. Breath is a
out of over 700 works to participate in NAFA’s Best of Best video documentation of my reflection where I am able to alter
Show 2020, a specially curated annual showcase that time with the exaggerated use of slow motion to show the
presents 40 of the best works in NAFA’s graduating cohort. possibility of slowing down the fast paced life – the conflicted
need to let it be erased through time, but yet wanting to revisit
Charmaine has sold an artwork “Identity” which was and indulge the memory. Time is possibly the only variable to
displayed at the glass panel in Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery shift feelings.
in 2019. She was also involved in designing the Fine Art
Graduation Catalogue and received the Dean’s List and
Top Graduate Award in her course, Art Teaching in 2019.
Charmaine has also collaborated with global companies
such as “Tocco Toscano” with the social media page
(Instagram) such as video editing and graphic designing
in 2019.
In 2018, Charmaine was selected as a facilitator for a
Watercolour workshop at Raffles Girls’ Primary School.
She also took part in the “East Meets West’ exhibition held
at On Air Gallery in 2017, during the Xiamen Overseas
Immersion Programme.
Fig 13.
B.o.B. 2020 S.O.A.D. Fine Art
