Noises Are Quite Loud Here

Noises Are Quite Loud Here

Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar/Thailand)

Photography prints, video projection

Venue Sponsor: Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film

Location: Lower Gallery

Gallery Hours: 22 Aug to 6 Sep 2025

Tue - Wed: 12 PM - 7 PM

Thurs to Fri: 12 PM to 10 PM

Sat to Sun: 12 PM to 10 PM

After the Singapore Night Festival, Objectifs will continue to host the Listening Biennial artworks and festival bookshop till the 28 Sep during their regular gallery hours.

Presented by The Listening Biennial, a highlight of The Singapore Night Festival

This project began as a spontaneous response to my transition from urban life, heightening my awareness of nature’s subtleties—plants, animals, and landscapes. It also reflects my ongoing exploration of various forms of "NOISE," from the hallucinated sounds I battle to the suffocating air pollution during Chiang Mai’s notorious smog season. The work consists of a photographic and video installation accompanied by a sonic soundscape, blending analog photography with scanner-generated images to depict noise’s overwhelming presence in the environment. Color and monochrome images, captured through deliberate and unhurried analog photography, document my daily explorations of Rimbun Dahan, a 14-acre tropical garden near Kuala Lumpur. Scattered flowers, leaves, and deceased insects gathered from the garden are thoughtfully combined with archival materials on environmental degradation and chaotic social noise, adding depth through scanner imagery. Noises Are Quite Loud Here is a personal introspection on how noise intensifies even in seemingly tranquil environments. It contemplates the profound damage humans have inflicted upon nature and questions whether there is still a chance to mend and protect our ecosystem.

About the Artist:

Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar/Thailand) is a photographer and mixed media artist from Myanmar, currently based in Thailand. Shwe’s work focuses on collective histories, familial ties, the knots and threads of human relationships, and exploring the inner psyche through intimate storytelling about people and places dear to her heart. She tells personal stories to connect with and examine broader social aspects; conversely, she works on social documentaries reflecting and drawing from her own position within the context. Shwe uses photography as her main medium and incorporates archives, videos, texts, sounds, poems, paintings, and drawings of her own or in collaboration with others. Shwe’s works have been exhibited in festivals and spaces such as Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2020, Aichi Triennale 2022, Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023 with 'Zomia Pavilion', Singapore International Photography Festival 2020, Photo Australia International Festival of Photography 2022, ArtScience Museum Singapore, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Photoforum Pasquart, and Foam Amsterdam.

http://shwewutthmone.com/

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About The Listening Biennial

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognising its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

Read more: https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

Singapore Edition: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/