Desire is Dead
Through a playful juxtaposition of artworks, the exhibition seeked to tease out the erotic presences, complexities, and potentialities in Singapore’s midst, where a plenitude of desire surrounds us every day and everywhere, shaping the way we view the world and ourselves.
The exhibition was configured such that it is as much a visual showcase as it is a spatial exercise enacted bodily through artworks that engages audiences sensorially or require audience interaction. Watch a short video HERE to hear about the curator Adele Tan’s take and inspiration behind this.
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The Idea of the Coconut, 2019
Wong began her artistic practice in the late 1980s as a painter and art writer, later developing curatorial projects focused on collaboration and issues faced by women. The coconut trees observed in many filmic mise-en-scène are ciphers for the suppressed or subdued presence of non-white/non-Western voices and bodies in these films portraying intimate encounters.
Artist:
Susie Wong
Print on Paper and Transparency
23.5 x 30.5 x 0.7 cm
Susie Wong
Print on Paper and Transparency
23.5 x 30.5 x 0.7 cm