THE POLAR BEAR AND THE MONSTERA
a solo by Xiaocong Ge

🗓 19–27 September 2026
📍 Comma Space

OPENING
🕓 Sat, 19 Sep | 4–6pm

ARTIST TOUR
🕒 Sun, 27 Sep | 3pm

More than a year after her Arctic residency in spring 2025, Xiaocong presents works and writings made through a year-long process of unpacking the experience. The exhibition considers how the residency continues to unfold beyond its physical duration. For her, the Arctic is not a self-contained experience, and its meaning emerges retrospectively through distance.

The question of ‘What does it mean to be in the Arctic?’ thus provides an entry point to a renewed understanding of where we are, before and after.

//About the artist
@xiaocong.ge works across ink, photography, and installation, exploring human presence within shifting landscapes and material frameworks. Her practice examines cultural, architectural, and ecological traces as carriers of memory, power, and control, bringing together natural and manufactured materials to reveal tensions between materiality and context.

Her work has been presented at the 10th Daegu Photo Biennale (2025), Whitestone Gallery, Singapore (2025), Singapore International Photography Festival (2024), Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film (2024), among others. She has undertaken residencies with The Arctic Circle and K11 Group × ArtReview.