Part of “A Home Away From Home”, Framing Tomorrow: DECK Fundraiser Weekend 2025
About The Artist
Pierfrancesco Celada (1979); after completing a PhD in Biomechanics, Pierfrancesco is now concentrating his attention on a series of personal long-term photographic projects documenting life in modern cities. He won the Photo Folio Review, Les Rencontres d’Arles (2021), the Guernsey Photography Festival International Competition (2020), PHmuseum Photography Grant (runner-up, 2020), Happiness Onthemove Award (2017), EPEA’03 (2015), the Photolux Leica Award (2014) and the Ideastap and Magnum Photos Photographic Award (2010). His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including Les Rencontres d’Arles, Fotografia Europea, Cortona ONTHEMOVE, Nobel Peace Center, Gulbenkian Foundation, Wyng Foundation and Deichtorhallen.
When I feel down I take the train to the Happy Valley
| 2014-2022
By Pierfrancesco Celada
Hahnemuhle FineArt Satin | Edition 2/9 | 30 x 40cm
L-Shaped frame suspended mounting + L-shaped black wooden frame + Works Cold Mounting On Aluminum – Plastic Board + Wood Backboard
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 Pierfrancesco Celada
Hahnemuhle FineArt Satin | Edition 2/9 | 30 x 40cm
L-Shaped frame suspended mounting + L-shaped black wooden frame + Works Cold Mounting On Aluminum – Plastic Board + Wood Backboard
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.