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Goat Xi Fa Cai 02 (2015)

Ernest Goh

Limited edition of 50
Archival Pigment Print
50cm x 50cm
2015
EG023
The Chinese animal zodiac, or shengxiao is a repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year being represented by an animal and its reputed attributes. Every year during the Lunar New Year period the retailers usurp these animal symbols for commercial purposes and in the process often transforming the animal into comical and mythical creatures.  2015 was the Lunar New Year of the Goat and in this work the humble goat is offered up by the artist as a realistic representation of the commercial usage in an attempt to blur the borders of the real and the commercially created.
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Ernest Goh

Ernest Goh is an artist and photographer based in Singapore. His current fine art photography work on the natural world is inspired by his childhood spent wading in the streams of his grandmother's rural village looking for fishes. He has also worked closely with non-profit organizations in documenting important events in Asia, including Altered Land on the aftermath and recovery from the 2004 Tsunami in Aceh, for which the series was awarded the 2012 ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Discernment Award in Singapore.

 

Goh's portraits of animals include those of ornamental fish bred in Singapore, juvenile orangutans in a rescue centre in Sumatra, and chickens bred for beauty pageants in Malaysia. The wave of a wing or fin, the flick of a tail and the cock of a head are captured by Goh, evoking human-like characteristics that a casual observer would not be able to immediately see. Indeed, the temperament and attitudes of the animals exude from the portraits, particularly in their facial expressions, pushing the boundaries established by humans in differentiating themselves from the animal world. Through the photographer's lens, we see characters that are familiar in faces that are unexpected.

 

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Goat Xi Fa Cai 02

Stock No: EG023