Part of “A Home Away From Home”, Framing Tomorrow: DECK Fundraiser Weekend 2025
About The Artist
Marvin Tang (b.1989, Singapore) works with images, videos and installations to manifest his research. Surveying the peripherals of historicity and evolving social policies, his practice examines systems of power and resistance.
The Colony Archive #14 | 2025
By Marvin Tang
Archival Print on Photo Rag Paper | Edition of 1 + 2AP | 45 x 60cm
Shadow Box Frame
The Colony examines the impact of the colonial botanical institutes and its repercussions towards the movement of seeds, plants and people. Investigating its past and present roles; in an attempt to understand its underlying agendas.
A Home Away From Home
Curated by: John Z.W. Tung
In the heart of Singapore's heritage shophouses, generosity takes architectural form. A Home Away From Home emerges from an act of patronage: these storied walls opened as sanctuary while DECK's permanent photography centre takes shape, transforming family dwelling into cultural commons.
Here, photography finds itself arranged not as institutional display but as domestic inhabitant. Works hang as one might place family portraits — intimate and accessible, woven into the rhythms of daily life. Living room walls become galleries, kitchens house photobook libraries, and dining spaces foster the gatherings that sustain artistic community.
This exhibition serves as DECK’s housewarming, a celebration that launches our residence within these gifted walls while Singapore’s first purpose-built photography centre takes shape elsewhere.
What binds these works is not curatorial distance but the warmth of proximity. The home becomes method and meaning: a space where art encounters audience as guest meets host, where photography learns to inhabit the world as neighbour rather than artifact.
By Marvin Tang
Archival Print on Photo Rag Paper | Edition of 1 + 2AP | 45 x 60cm
Shadow Box Frame
The Colony examines the impact of the colonial botanical institutes and its repercussions towards the movement of seeds, plants and people. Investigating its past and present roles; in an attempt to understand its underlying agendas.
A Home Away From Home
Curated by: John Z.W. Tung
In the heart of Singapore's heritage shophouses, generosity takes architectural form. A Home Away From Home emerges from an act of patronage: these storied walls opened as sanctuary while DECK's permanent photography centre takes shape, transforming family dwelling into cultural commons.
Here, photography finds itself arranged not as institutional display but as domestic inhabitant. Works hang as one might place family portraits — intimate and accessible, woven into the rhythms of daily life. Living room walls become galleries, kitchens house photobook libraries, and dining spaces foster the gatherings that sustain artistic community.
This exhibition serves as DECK’s housewarming, a celebration that launches our residence within these gifted walls while Singapore’s first purpose-built photography centre takes shape elsewhere.
What binds these works is not curatorial distance but the warmth of proximity. The home becomes method and meaning: a space where art encounters audience as guest meets host, where photography learns to inhabit the world as neighbour rather than artifact.