Video credit: Dongyan Chen

Presented at Madness Measured

A SPECTRUM OF DISCIPLINE AND DISRUPTION
FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Venue: INSTINC Space, 39 Keppel Rd, #03-10 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065

Exhibition Duration: 26 February to 8 March 2026 | Wed-Fri, 1PM-7PM. Sat - Sun, 1PM-6PM

Opening Reception: 26 February 2026 (Thu), 5:30PM–8:30PM
with Performance by Sophia Natasha Wei, 6PM-6:30PM

Fireside Chat: 28 February 2026 (Sat), 3-4PM

Closing Tour: 8 March 2026 (Sun), 3-4PM

Discipline meets disruption. This International Women’s Day, INSTINC presents Madness Measured: a spectrum of women artists navigating the razor’s edge between control and chaos.

Madness Measured brings together eight women artists whose practices span new media, glass, photography, painting, video, installation, and performance. Their works emerge from the delicate equilibrium between structure and pure creativity, each cultivated with intense care and a degree of risk.

The exhibition proposes a new way of interrogating these artists’ practices, exploring the dual forces of creation: the Measured—rigorous technique and the Madness—the chaotic intuition required to break new ground.

As you navigate the space, you are invited to witness how the artists tread the line between the two. Here, Madness is not a loss of control but a deliberate calibration of intensity. It is the moment the ceramicist surrenders to the fire, the coder invites the error, and the painter breaks the grid. This is a celebration of women who master the rules only to rewrite them.

Featuring artists:

Dongyan Chen, Joanne Pang, Joo Choon Lin, Natalia Ludmila, Sophia Natasha Wei, Tan Sock Fong, Yeo Shih Yun, Yeoh Wee Hwee

Chen Dongyan x Yeo Shih Yun—Collaboration《留虚·影》
Leaving the Virtual: Shadows
2026
Digital print on polyester silk with video projection
270 x 150 cm

This collaborative installation explores the evolving relationship between tradition and technology. Rooted in the aesthetics of Chinese painting and calligraphy, the work adopts the format of a hanging scroll—an homage to classical forms—while subtly evoking the vertical orientation of today’s smartphone screens.

At its core is an image composed of layered photographs of brushstrokes made by robots, printed onto silk. This image is further transformed through video projection created with TouchDesigner, introducing smudging and dissolving effects that alter and animate the surface. By fusing machine-made marks with digital manipulation, the work questions the boundaries between human expression and algorithmic precision.