开门见三
Fiona Seow
Medium - Ink on paper
Year - 2025
13 to 30 November, 10am to 6pm
Journey East
#03-02
Tan Boon Liat Building
Artist Statement
The number 3 embodies the principles of creation and expression; 333 amplifies this resonance into a call toward creative manifestation. The phrase “开门见三” reconfigures the idiom “开门见山”—to be direct—into a play on perception and translation.
While the idiom implies clarity, angel numbers operate in codes—cryptic, interpretive, open to projection. This tension becomes the foundation of the work. Each strip is composed of overlapping drawings of the number 3, where repetition dissolves clarity into pattern. Arranged together, these strips form the Chinese character 三, gradually expanding into a mountain-like formation.
The installation explores how meaning shifts through repetition, translation, and synchronicity. What appears simple—three lines—becomes layered, uncertain. The viewer’s reading, like the number itself, exists between intuition and recognition.
Artist Bio
Fiona Seow (b.1992, Singapore) is a visual artist. Her practice is primarily driven by an with perfection and order, coupled with a compulsion to repeat. Her geometric abstract drawings and installations are often laborious, reflecting her interest in relations between time and its value.
Her recent works exhibited during Singapore Art Week 2024 is an exploration of rituals and forms through paper and stationery. In 2025, she put up her first public sculpture - Greener Pastures at Tanjong Pagar Distripark.
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Supper House, in collaboration with Journey East, will start their art calendar with a new show 开门见山 at Journey East at Tan Boon Liat Building.
Starting on the 5th of June 2025, we will be joined by 10 artists with 8 monthly presentations all the way to January 2026.
Every month, an artist will take over the Supper House pop-up and present their ideals, values, and concepts to our visitors.
What are the perceived values in objects that we hold dear? We have been asking ourselves this all day.
What is valuable is a matter of perspectives. In this world constantly shaped by opinions and values held dear to each and every unique individual, how do we then, each of us, see the value in the common things?
How each of us consumes and takes in art is a highly debatable subject. Much like how we view different locales.
Much like a dream, a mirage, or an idea, these are but forced perspectives valued by its owner, its creator.
We look forward to welcoming each and every one of you in the months ahead.
Featuring:
Hans Chew
Akai Chew
Theophilus Kwek
Sam Lay
Genevieve Leong
Joanne Lim
Ong Si Hui
Fiona Seow
Berny Tan
Jayden Tan
Owen Tee Hao Wei
Alexander Teoh