GRIDlocked features paintings and sculptures by visual artist Dr Rajinder Jit Singh. This is Raj's first solo exhibition in Singapore. He has been working on contrasts between artificial and 'man-made' lines, forms and shapes, examining issues concerning our dichotomous worldview today. Thoughtful questions are raised through Raj's large format and strikingly colourful works which will be curated to work thematically to deliver a message of contrasts.

The way we view reality today is defective. We are handicapped by it. And there is mounting evidence that continue to illustrate the defectiveness of our worldview. But alas, much of this is ignored. We continue to divide the world between objects and subjects. We and our world. We are, in our erroneous apprehension, eternally and immutably, separated from the world around us. Science is partially responsible for this. In out attempt to make unbiased observations, we created a reality separate from ourselves. One that we can remove independently away from us and make measured observations and place them into neat formulas that try to explain everything. But science has been an incomplete master. It lacks as a guide to our lives and as the scope to our worldview.

Raj hopes to show this desperate but erroneous separation thru his paintings under the theme of GRIDlocked. Our Subject-Object paradigm of our world is our GRID. It holds us in its unerring clutches. We are GRIDlocked. The distinction between the deliberate paint drips and the clean almost artificial lines of the boxes is the telling one - the ordered measured and clinically masked in/out world of the contrasting, preplanned, preconceived tones and colours of the 10cm boxes. And the barely controlled splatter of paint leaping off the brush to make some unintelligible mark guided by some unfathomable force. Two separate worlds. Two explanations for the same. We want to make sense of what is, as the paintings depict, not quite boxable.

This is the first of several exhibitions that will deliver a strong wakeup call for the viewer to consider an alternative reality. A reality where values and probabilities and viewpoints make better sense of the world. A world that will not alienate us as much. A world which will allow art to become the evolving force of mankind.

Raj's first solo exhibition will thus take the audience through a life changing journey to another reality. It is hoped that when the audience leaves the Gallery, it will be with a renewed sense of wonder in life and our very existence.