Staying woke: “Awakenings” at National Gallery Singapore
about 58 months ago (07/29/2019)
Staying woke: “Awakenings” at National Gallery Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Safely Manoeuvring Across Linhe Road by Lin Yilin. Image courtesy of Lin Yilin and Boers-Li Gallery. July 29, 2019 By Nabilah Said (1,000 words, 6-minute read) My friends that have visited Singapore in recent times have been given the following non-food recommendations by me: I point them to Haw Par Villa for its wonderfully macabre dreamscapes of punitive Asian values, and then suggest they drop by National Gallery Singapore for the art contained within a pair of disemboweled historical buildings, that can be seen as representing a soul-searching Singapore attempting to extricate itself from its colonial past.