Can Art Create New Worlds from the Pieces of this Broken One?
ArtReview At National Gallery Singapore, artists probe sensitive subjects under a state-managed image of a harmonious, multi-ethnic society Yeyoon Avis Ann, Passage Moist Beings, 2020, 3-channel video and resin. Courtesy the artist and National Gallery Singapore Five brown women have taken over National Gallery Singapore (NGS). In front of a Raden Saleh painting of animals escaping from a forest fire, they recite excerpts from Frank Swettenham’s The Real Malay (1899), one of the foundation...
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