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.
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