Singapore Biennale 2013 at National Museum of Singapore
From now till 16 February next year, you get to see art works by artists in the region at several museums like the National Museum of Singapore.
At National Museum of Singapore basement 1, when you enter the exhibition hall, the first thing that you'll see will be the haunting neon green chandeliers of exquisite designs. These 31 beautiful chandeliers are made of uranium glass which actually emit radioactive. Though I was enthralled by its beauty, I didn't want to stand under the light as it emit some radioactive, though the museum staff assured us that the radioactive emitted is very miniscule.
The 31 chandeliers actually represent the 31 nuclear nations of the world before the collapse of Fukushima nuclear reactor. The bigger the chandelier, the more nuclear power plants the nation has.
This art work is a warning to the human. Though it is beautiful, once the chandelier shatter, it will cause irreversible damage.
"If you could change the world, what would it look like? The country’s premier contemporary art exhibition, the Singapore Biennale, returns this year with the title ‘If the World Changed’, inviting everyone to re-consider or re-imagine the world we live in. Expect a diverse range of works from over 80 artists primarily with links to Southeast Asia, more than half of which are new commissions. The fourth edition of the Biennale draws on the expertise of twenty-seven curators from across the region, presenting a diversity of artistic responses with a distinctive Southeast Asian identity."
Unsubtitled by Nguyen Trinh Thi from Vietnam. Nguyen invited the artists to state their name followed by the name of the food they had consumed after eating. His work is a protest against the surveillance and intimidation from the state's cultural police.
At National Museum of Singapore basement 1, when you enter the exhibition hall, the first thing that you'll see will be the haunting neon green chandeliers of exquisite designs. These 31 beautiful chandeliers are made of uranium glass which actually emit radioactive. Though I was enthralled by its beauty, I didn't want to stand under the light as it emit some radioactive, though the museum staff assured us that the radioactive emitted is very miniscule.
The 31 chandeliers actually represent the 31 nuclear nations of the world before the collapse of Fukushima nuclear reactor. The bigger the chandelier, the more nuclear power plants the nation has.
This art work is a warning to the human. Though it is beautiful, once the chandelier shatter, it will cause irreversible damage.
"If you could change the world, what would it look like? The country’s premier contemporary art exhibition, the Singapore Biennale, returns this year with the title ‘If the World Changed’, inviting everyone to re-consider or re-imagine the world we live in. Expect a diverse range of works from over 80 artists primarily with links to Southeast Asia, more than half of which are new commissions. The fourth edition of the Biennale draws on the expertise of twenty-seven curators from across the region, presenting a diversity of artistic responses with a distinctive Southeast Asian identity."
 |
| Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations. Conceived in 2011 by Ken & Julia Yonetani in response to the nuclear disaster in Japan. |
" The title of the work refernces the grandiose building designed for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, hinting at the tension between human ambitions, technological development and its cost and consequences"
Comments
Post a Comment