The Passenger Project, 2023 — Paradise Now Collective

The Passenger Project
2023
Shimano Cycling World
Curated by Rose Wei

Various Objects, Print on Bicycle Trailer

We live our everyday lives commuting from one place to another: where many force themselves into our lives, they also leave abruptly without a trace. As passengers of the city, traveling becomes a non-obtrusive act that exposes us to moments of encounters and departures, bringing different people and diverse lifestyles closer together. What can we hold on to when living in the moment unrestingly?

This project is supported by the Platform Projects Curatorial Award overseen by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore @ntu_ccasingapore.

Photography by Jonathan Tan

Formed in 2020, Paradise Now is a Multimedia Artist Collective (Bryan Tan, Jay Ho) whose artworks assimilate a diversity of daily influences drawn from perception through observation.

With a penchant for amalgamating incompatible elements, Paradise Now grows as a natural synergy of conflicting histories and personal experiences - they seek to explore the notion of space/mental space, memories, emotions, symbolism and metaphors through multidisciplinary approaches.

Paradise Now is a repository for their thoughts and memories that would otherwise fade away with the business of daily living.