This edition of ‘R for Repair’ will feature a special exchange between the UK and Singapore with objects from both countries creatively repaired by a selection of Singaporean and UK designers.
The exhibition will include ten items repaired by ten different designers for 2022, alongside three repaired objects from the original exhibition in 2021. The exhibition will feature in the V&A Design 1900 – Now section in a concept created by Nice Projects. All final repaired objects will be displayed in an exhibition at the V&A (London) from 17 September 2022 to 30 October 2022. Everything on display will be returned to the owners thereafter.
Ten designers in Singapore were invited to exercise their creativity and restore broken, faulty, worn-out objects that were volunteered by the public through an open call. Their unique and fascinating approaches resulted in outcomes that challenge our preconceptions of repair.
The Designers
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Tiffany Loy is a Singaporean artist, first trained in industrial design at National University of Singapore, then textile-weaving at Kawashima Textile School. Loy is a recipient of the DesignSingapore Scholarship, graduating in 2020 with an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art, specialising in woven textiles.
Since the founding of her eponymous studio in 2014, Loy’s experimental works have been exhibited internationally, at venues such as Singapore Art Museum, National Museum of Singapore, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and La Triennale di Milano.
Loy’s background in product and textile design has led to her unique approach in creating materials with minute details, while keeping in mind their overall impact in the larger, spatial context. Often referencing traditional techniques and re-framing them in the contemporary context, Loy’s work builds on heritage in experimental ways.
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Lim Qi Xuan is a 29-year-old sculptor, better known by her moniker, QimmyShimmy. She works as a designer by day and an artist by nightfall, fuelling her two passions with caffeine and even bigger dreams.
Her miniature sculptures, which are described by many as “creepy-cute”, fuse two worlds of the real and the imagined, treading between the fine lines of horror and beauty. Her aesthetic sensibilities have been shaped by her love for fantasy stories, old curiosities, time-travel and a yearning for worlds natural and made-believe.
QimmyShimmy’s works have been showcased in galleries around the world, in cities like New York, LA, London, Rome and Tokyo. She is currently based in Singapore.
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Lanzavecchia + Wai is an award-winning industrial design studio based between Italy and Singapore.
Design projects are research journeys characterized by the pursuit and selective employment of different design disciplines and professional competences, to be curated, cross-bred and nurtured into concepts and products that propose possibilities and inspire new perspectives.
The design studio was established in 2010 and their work spans from limited editions, to mass products for brands like Zanotta, FIAM, Living Divani, LaCividina, Cappellini, De Castelli, Gallotti&Radice, Bosa, Nodus, Mirage to special commissions for major brands and museums like Hermès, La Triennale di Milano, Wallpaper*, MAXXI, Alcantara, Antolini, Tod’s, AgustaWestland.
Their many accomplishments include the Red Dot Product Design Award, “Innovation in Inclusive Design Practice Award” by the Royal College of Art, London, and the “Young Design Talent of the Year” by Elle Décor International Design Awards 2014.