FIDELITY- ALOFT AT HERMES

Aloft at Hermes is a foundation created by Hermes that showcases the art work of the French artists and other artist around the world. Aloft is one foundation that is at 5 different places in the world. One of them is at Singapore. These art spaces are created to showcase the work of the artist. Each year two artist around the globe are invited to interpret an annual exhibition theme that will help engage the public in an ongoing dialogue exploring key issues and perspective. The third floor of the Flagship store of Hermes in Singapore has become one of the artwork exhibit and showcase arena of the art. The one in Singapore exists at the heart of Orchard Road. The main moto of this is to offer the community a unique space to find the art around us and fall in love with art.

The title or the art work does not account for any accurate document or depict any community. The whole artwork was made with an encounter of places travelled by Jeremy Sharma.

He wanted to record songs from different communities, that were never heard or sung by communities which existed amongst us. These songs were basically a portrayal of events, feelings and life of these communities.

“In fact Fidelity can be prescribed as question of representation of authenticity and organising forces between them.”

Jeremy Sharmas work can be defined to collaborating different mediums and disciplines together to form an ambiguous forms and unstable statuses of objects.. His work often deals with knowledge, perception, memory data and formats to be made, occupied heart or visualised. His recent works forays into experiments looking into places and scenes through the effects of modernity, while working with elements of the voice, light, atmosphere, film, music movement and architecture.Apart from being an artist he is also a faculty of the Fine Arts at the LASALLE College of the Arts.

Jeremys interest in this kind of art started when he took a trip under projects for his college that he taught in. All this started with his extended trips to Yogakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.The complete art work is a soothing mixture of ancient folk songs of the four communities. These four are Javanese, Orang Seletar(Sea Gypsies),Rohingyas and the Kristang. Jeremy has put in the different songs of these four communities in the southern Asian region, which people dint know existed.

There are lullabuys , poems and stories in form of songs of the past events of the communities. The Orang Seletar also know as the sea gypsies are now situated at the mangroves of Northern parts of Singapore, by the Selatar sea. They describe about how they had to shift base because of the division of the country by the Johor strait. They are known to revolve around the southeast Asian islands. Another community chosen by Jeremy was close to him was Kristang community, who are a mixed of Portuguese and Asian ancestry ,chiefly from Malacca and Singapore. The reason for this one was his personal decent from the Portugal community.