Under Your Spell is an homage to all the things we loved about pop punk in the early 2000s—classical Shakespearean lyricism, lo-fi home made tapes shot in skate parks, box dyes, arm sleeves, gloomy weather and gloomier makeup. Three words seven letters, what do you think we’ll say?

Ryan Benjamin Lee (b.1997) is a moving image artist and animator based in Singapore, whose practice involves utilising video art, installation, GIFs, sampling and (re)animation to create a range of media assemblages. Grounded in material investigations, his artworks centre around illusion-making in animation history; ping-ponging between spectacle and demystification, propaganda and cynicism. His playful, tactile use of printed material, particularly found images, photographs, print and books, intertwined with drawn animation illustrate an abstract iconoclastic world refracting in multiple directions.

nor’s artistic practice is rooted in self-portraiture. Their works span the disciplines of photography, film, video, performance, text and spoken word poetry to engage with ideas of belonging and identity through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories. They presented a solo exhibition In Love at Coda Culture (2018, Singapore), and has shown at group exhibitions including An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season at the National Gallery Singapore (2020-2021), MAT at the Objectifs - Centre for Photography & Film (2019, Singapore) and Minor Infelicities at Post Territory Ujeongguk (2020, South Korea).