SPACE 1: CONMAN

Exhibition Dates : 18 November - 30 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 19 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Instant Distant

Nostalgia is an emotionally driven memory which never arrives whole. A scent, a song, a face blurred in motion. Like headlights on a highway at night, these memories appear suddenly in the distance, flare brightly, then fade to streaks of colour while slipping away. Each recollection feels vivid, yet always drifts further from the reality it once held.

Instant Distant is Conman’s new body of work, exploring nostalgia as both fleeting and consuming. Here, memory is staged, fragmented, and reassembled - an image that changes every time it is recalled. Within these works, abstraction and collage function like memory itself: capturing simultaneous happenings within a moment.

Drawing from film stills, advertisements, and remnants of cultural ephemera, Conman presents imagery that feels strangely familiar, yet never fully ours. This process explores the idea of memory being constructed, shaped by images that circulate and exist beyond an individual’s experience.

Instant Distant is a fleeting window where the past brushes against the present, before vanishing once again into the distance.