Art exhibition aims to explore what hope looks like to persons living with mental disorders

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SINGAPORE — Over a year ago, homemaker Foo Choon Ean wrote a poem about her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as a form of self-expression because of the frustration, despair and anxiety she had been experiencing as a result of coping with the condition for more than 20 years.

The 46-year-old said: “I needed an outlet. I needed to rant. I express myself more comfortably with words, so I wrote the poem. I started writing to vent my frustrations and to make sense of it.”

The picture book, along with six other artworks that feature animation, music and dance, will be part of an exhibition titled The Artist’s Residency: An Investigation into Mental Health and Hope.Over six months, nine student artists worked closely with five people who have mental disorders to co-create the various artworks, which depict what it is like to live with the conditions.

Ms Foo said she noticed that people are so fearful of the unknown, especially mental illness, whether it is depression, OCD or other conditions. “I also asked for more details to flesh out my narrative. I got to hear from Choon Ean her first-hand account of living with OCD, which is eye-opening for me,” Ms Yang said.

The exhibition will also feature an immersive mixed-media installation created by Ms Michelle Lim, 24, a fourth-year electrical and electronic engineering student at Nanyang Technological University, and national serviceman Arthur Lim, 20.Ms Wong, a first-year student at Duke-NUS Medical School, said that she shared her lived experience with the pair over Zoom video-calls.

 

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