An attempt at solidifying make-believe landscapes
2026
An attempt at solidifying make-believe landscapes is a series of object assemblages by Genevieve Leong that continues the inquiry of the artist’s earlier print series, An attempt at exhausting a place from my window (2020-21), where she created 26 variations of a landscape, exploring the various possibilities of looking at a single vantage point. In this follow-up iteration of the work, the two-dimensional forms from the former series are extrapolated into physical object constellations arranged on the ground.
Drawing from the nostalgic vocabulary of children’s imaginative play and ‘masak masak’, a traditional game of make-believe cooking where children use toy pots and pans and imaginary ingredients to mimic a variety of dishes in adult cooking, the work explores the infinite permutations of translating abstracted forms into object landscapes.
This body of work was exhibited at ShanghART SG Annexe alongside works by Cally Tan and Catherine Hu, as part of the group exhibition ‘pbdq’ initiated by Hong Shu-ying.