During Singapore Art Week 2026, Objectifs invites visitors to slow down, look closer, and wander, both indoors and out. From intimate gallery spaces to the edges of busy streets, its January programme transforms the area around Middle Road into a site of quiet encounters, sensory shifts, and unexpected moments of reflection.

Running from 20 January to early March, the programme brings together photography, film, sculpture, and video art, with works by Singaporean and Japanese artists that explore how images move through memory, public space, and the body. Rather than spectacle, the focus here is on atmosphere: how art feels when it brushes up against daily life, weather, traffic, and time.

Inside the Chapel Gallery, curator Dylan Chan’s exhibition To unfold by feeling, the view from here is perfect asks what happens when images stop behaving as fixed representations and start acting like living things. Featuring works by Daniel Chong, Marvin Tang, Jo Ho, and Priyageetha Dia, the exhibition traces how images fragment, mutate, and linger, circulating between memory, technology, and projection.

There are echoes of familiar landscapes and histories, but they’re refracted through unexpected lenses: constructed greenery, plantation legacies reimagined through sound, medical scans that hover between abstraction and recognition, and digital culture transformed into sculptural and mural forms. The result is an exhibition that feels less like something to “read” and more like something to inhabit—where seeing becomes a bodily, emotional process.

Visitors can deepen the experience through a curator-led tour on 31 January, or catch a conversation between artists Daniel Chong and Marvin Tang in mid-February.

Step outside, and art spills into the surrounding neighbourhood. Exposure_Exposure, an outdoor sculptural exhibition curated by Chong and Chan, unfolds across Objectifs’ exterior spaces and nearby margins. Featuring works by Chok Si Xuan, Grace Tan, Ian Tee, PG Lee, and Sookoon Ang, the exhibition plays with what it means to be visible, both physically and socially, during a city-wide art moment.

Rather than dominating the streetscape, the works quietly occupy it: kinetic steel forms, suspended fabrics, clay objects, cultivated pockets of wildness, and large inflatables that respond to wind and movement. Seen alongside pedestrians, passing cars, and shifting light, the artworks change throughout the day, rewarding repeat encounters.

It’s an exhibition best experienced casually, on a lunch break, during an evening walk, or while passing through the Bras Basah-Waterloo area, where art becomes part of the city’s rhythm rather than a destination apart from it.

Back indoors, Salt Tongues / Far Shores Near continues a long-running exchange between artists from Singapore and Japan. Curated by Comma Space, the exhibition draws from a shared maritime imagination, taking inspiration from the port cities of Singapore and Onomichi.

The title evokes both geography and sensation: salt as sea and flavour, tongues as language and body. Together, they frame an exploration of migration, translation, and cultural crossings, how places can feel distant yet deeply connected. Through photography, moving image, and installation, participating artists reflect on shared environments and the intimate ties that stretch across water.

Guided tours on opening night and at the end of January offer audiences a chance to hear more about the ideas and exchanges behind the works.

Even beyond the gallery walls, Objectifs’ Singapore Art Week programme reaches into the city. As part of the Urban Screens initiative, artist duo Perception3 presents two newly commissioned video works on large outdoor screens at Wilkie Edge and Fortune Centre.

Set against footage of the South China Sea, YOU ARE HELD HERE IN THIS MOMENT and YOU WILL NOT FEEL THIS WAY FOREVER pair gentle text with expansive imagery, offering brief pauses of calm amid the visual noise of advertising screens. They’re works meant to be stumbled upon, quiet reminders to breathe, linger, and feel.

Whether you’re deliberately gallery-hopping or simply passing through the neighbourhood, Objectifs’ Singapore Art Week programme rewards curiosity and attentiveness. It’s art that doesn’t shout, but instead waits patiently for viewers willing to meet it halfway.

More information available from Objectifs’ website here