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Fong Qi Wei

Singapore skyline that turns from sunset on the left to night on the right, the sky cut into arcs of different times
Time is a Dimension · Singapore Sunset, 2016

Art that defies categorisation.

Fong Qi Wei works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Each series stretches what a single photograph can hold: hours of a sunset in one frame, a building rebuilt from its own fragments, the structure of a flower revealed petal by petal.

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Series

Vienna street with trams at dusk, the sky stepping from day to night

Time is a Dimension

Hours of a sunset, day into night, held in a single image or loop. Singapore and cities abroad.

Koon Seng shophouse rebuilt from hundreds of small photographic fragments on a yellow background

Mirror World

Buildings and places rebuilt from their own fragments, piece by piece.

Mosaic-tiled watermelon playground lit at night

Old Singapore Playgrounds

The mosaic dragons, watermelons and pelicans of the heartland’s playgrounds.

Red gerbera taken apart, its petals arranged in rings around the flower head

Exploded Flowers

Flowers taken apart and laid out, petal by petal.

Exhibited

Brush Strokes of Nature, solo exhibition, National Museum of Singapore (2013)

Time is a Dimension, Institute for the Future Gallery, Palo Alto (2015)

Art Next Door, group show, White Box, Publika (2015)

Featured in

Wired

The New York Times

PetaPixel

Scientific American

This Is Colossal

Awards

International Photography Awards, 1st place (2013)

International Photography Awards, 2nd place (2012)

France + Singapore Photographic Arts Award, finalist (2012)

Prints, commissions and collaborations

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