“…Microscopic Images explores and re-examines the inherent qualities of this incidental process and its photographic “by-products”—of which has amassed into a large collection—and presents them in a way that considers how they were originally perceived and used in the artist’s process, only now for general viewers and without any practical intention.”

A small exhibition accompanying a new publication by artist Loh Xiang Yun published by Temporary Press

Since 2018, Loh Xiang Yun has started working as a scientific botanical illustrator for Singapore Botanic Gardens, where she made and studied microscopic images of plant specimens in order to create pen-and-ink illustrations for scientific publications.

The book Microscopic Images explores and re-examines the inherent qualities of this incidental process and its photographic “by-products”—of which has amassed into a large collection—and presents them in a way that considers how they were originally perceived and used in the artist’s process, only now for general viewers and without any practical intention.

The accompanying exhibition explores and presents the same photographic materials in a similar but extended manner—it translates the processes and experiences of the artist through broader representations and recalls otherwise unnoticed qualities and possibilities of these photographs that may be obscured by its original, instrumental purpose.

EXHIBITION: Microscopic Images

DURATION: May 22 - June 19, 2021

PRESENTED BY: Temporary Unit

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Temporary Press

*Images courtesy of Temporary Unit

PUBLICATION: Microscopic Images