TANG Ling Nah is a Singapore-based artist. She is inspired by the city’s transitory spaces. Her work seeks to reflect on the conditions of the urban city, especially its speed and lack of intimacy and depth in interpersonal relationships. She hopes that when the viewers look at her drawings, they slow down, ponder and contemplate on their relationship with the city, their environment and with other people.
Her work involves demarcating and creating an illusion of space. The use of light and shadows (chiaroscuro) is also important in her work. In her recent works, she draws on-site using charcoal, paint, paper and masking tape on the wall and existing architectural elements. By blackening certain areas, she hopes to emphasise and draw the viewers' attention to the actual physical space. In addition, she refers to photo-images of real architectural spaces to draw an illusionary space on the wall and paper. In her work, she "de-construct" the original real spaces and “re-construct” them into imaginary spaces in her charcoal drawings to create a sense of unfamiliar familiarity. Her drawings resemble trompe l'oeil murals. Stairways, doors, windows and pillars are important features in my work.
In 2008, she represented Singapore in the 2nd Singapore Biennale and also exhibited a work in the 11th International Architecture Biennale in Venice (Singapore Pavilion). Her accolades include the Juror’s Choice in the Philip Morris Singapore-ASEAN Art Awards 2003, the Della Butcher Award 2000 and the Young Artist Award (Visual Arts) 2004 conferred by the National Arts Council, Singapore.
陳玲娜是一位新加坡藝術家。她迷上了都市的過渡空間，作品反應了現代都市的狀況，尤其是都市生活的節奏和人與人之間所缺乏的親密性。她在2008年代表新加坡參加第二屆新加坡雙年展，以及第十一屆威尼斯國際建築雙年展（新加坡展示館）。她曾榮獲2003年菲利普莫里斯新加坡亞細安藝術獎的評審獎、2000年德拉布切爾獎以及2004年新加坡藝術理事會所頒發的青年藝術家獎（視覺藝術）。