Just when you think you ve checked off all the boxes on your list to rediscover Singapore, the city is peppered with an exciting line-up of exhibitions and events to pique your fancy this month. From a fine jewellery-themed afternoon tea sessions for midweek wind downs to an immersive art experience at the Gardens By The Bay by renowned American artist Dale Chihuly, there s more than meets the eye in May s calendar.
We round up the top events below.
(Image: Charles Lim Yi Yong and STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery)
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Wikicliki: Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones
What Featuring six artist-curator pairs, including Heman Chong with Selene Yap, and Debbie Ding with Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, this new exhibition by the Singapore Art Museum explores the ways of collecting contemporary art in the digital age even more so with the array of images and data that increasingly govern our everyday lives.
‘SafeEntry, a national digital check-in system that collects personal data for contact tracing, has become a metonym for Singapore’s efficient management of the COVID-19 pandemic,’ observes Wong Bing Hao in their review of Heman Chong’s solo exhibition at STPI.
Safe Entry (Version 2.0 – 2.7) (2020), a suite of eight, near-identical paintings of QR codes on flesh-coloured backgrounds, opens the show. Upon scanning, viewers are directed to a point-of-view video of Chong walking through Singapore’s Changi Airport during the government’s stay-at-home order. The desolate travel hub is at odds with the city’s utopic self-image, feeding the artist’s ongoing inquiry into systems of power.
The Straits Times
Arts picks: Art exhibitions at National Gallery and STPI; poetry by Singapore and Hong Kong poets
Visitors can look forward to sketches by the Wu Guanzhong, his students artworks and rare archival materialsPHOTO: NATIONAL GALLERY SINGAPORE
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