Eva Mansor
Fine Arts Painting and illustration
This website contains my portfolio. My works are divided up by the years.
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Artist BiographyEva Mansor is a painter based in Singapore. With a background in illustration and fine arts, she explores her unique experience with visual impairment through a sculptural approach to two-dimensional art forms, creating various forms of human figuration in a surrounding narrative field. She has been diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) while completing her BFA in LASALLE College of the Arts. As her eyesight deteriorates with time, a sense of urgency and mindfulness is present throughout her body of work, reflecting upon the mutable nature of the human condition
Her work has been exhibited in commercial settings like Affordable Art Fair and overseas in Taiwan at ART TAICHUNG, as well as in grassroots-organized events like CŪN.
In addition to her studio practice, Eva attends live music events to participate in the different varying hardcore and metal subcultures in Singapore to connect with like-minded people with a shared interest in the music and ideology.Artist StatementI primarily work with figures and the narrative environments in which they occupy, taking inspiration from popular sci-fi media to explore the concepts of existentialism and death within various sects of society, primarily taking into account the complex nature of the disabled experience. I tend to focus on the transience of the human body and mind, how it not necessarily dissolves but transforms with age.
I seek to foster empathy and connection through my work’s exploration of aesthetics and themes that are both accessible for myself and the general public, aiming to showcase aspects of my personal life in a way that is highly dramatic a la a dated space opera.
Alongside my works that are oil on canvas, I enjoy experimenting with mixed media, exploring how different mediums interact with and complement each other in a novel way.
Non-Oil works of 2020
Gallery 1, 2020.
21cm x 30cm.Acrylic ink, acrylic marker, and hard pastels on sticker paper, A4.A series of 9 portraits.
Kaku, 2020.Acrylic ink, acrylic marker, and hard pastels on black papers of a sketchbook.Kaku was a project made to examine the nostalgia and comfort in being mentally ill and resisting treatment to maintain the “ill” mode of work and the strange irony of feeling unhappy about getting better.
Kaku was a collection of drawings I started producing after being released from the mental ward during a OCD spiral caused by the COVID events. The drawings consisted of predominantly male figures from my dreams, illustrated in increasingly complex ways as I started to regain myself.Kaku means awkward, stiff, out-of-touch in Malay, but the traditional Chinese character I picked to represent the word actually meant a particular ancient torture method that was used, Kaku.It represents a needle being stuck into a human eye, which I related to my psychosomatic blindness.I was in a dreamlike, dissociative state after months of mental anguish unmedicated—I untethered myself. I was and am captivated by the idea of self-inducing certain mental illness symptoms in order to create art, so throughout the project I noticed I kept trying to chase the feeling of disassociation throughout this project and it only became more and more kitsch and bizarre as I was completely grounded and “there” and process felt more meditative than manic.
Untitled, 2020.
Marker, acrylic ink, pastels on cardboard.
3 figures in landscape. Gift.
Untitled, 2020.Pastels, marker on newsprint.Figure in landscape.
Digital Works of 2020
Oil Works of 2020
__ Oil paintings on canvas sheets, __cm x __cm, 2020Nazinsky was a special new agricultural gulag. Upon arrival people were already dead from the poor train conditions and those living on Nazinsky would experience starving and being hunted for sport.I documented the main events that gave me a horrible feeling, like half-eaten calves and breasts on living women.This series of non-linear narrative paintings are usually ordered up randomly to see what story the viewer might come up with because I imagine at that stage, time, truth, and logic are useless and must be examined in this frantic way.
