I am finally dorsum to weblog virtually the Biennale, which past times forthwith is already over. The Biennale opened on October 26 lastly year, features to a greater extent than than 100 artworks past times 82 artists together with collectives from thirteen countries together with ended on 16th February this year.
As of lastly weekend, the fourth edition of the fine art exhibition organised past times the Singapore Art Museum has already been attended past times to a greater extent than than 500,000 people, to a greater extent than than twice the publish who attended the previous Biennale inwards 2011.
This postal service volition live mainly a photograph collection of the exhibits that went on during the exhibits. So bask the photos together with immerse yourself inwards the provoking globe of the Biennale!!
Titled: Telok Blangah, this locomote features kolek Melaka filled amongst thousands drinking glass bottles inscribed amongst messages from manful somebody inmates inwards Singapore
These are some of their dreams together with wishes.
Very lovely display
Visitors are encouraged to pen downwards their wishes together with for the inmates together with 'talk' to them. 
titled: Believe inwards God
titled: Monument for a Present future. this locomote showcased the aftermath of a catastrophes inwards Philippines amongst fragments of trunk parts scattered to a greater extent than or less to portray the violence together with fragility of life.
One of the highlights of Biennale together with my favourite: Cosmology of Life. These miniature, talisman-like sculptures are carved when the creative somebody was inwards a trance.
It's together with hence tiny you lot guide keep to purpose a magnifying drinking glass to peep through.
I honey how intricate these sculptures were individually. It's such a miracle to live able to reach them. Amazed really.
the figures portray men- taller together with women- smaller shorter ones, each dissimilar inwards their ain ways dorning dissimilar accessories etc. So realistic.
Titled: Stillness of Reflection. The creative somebody conveyed photographic dimension together with distances inwards his locomote through a compilation of photographs. Awesome
Titled: Little Soap Boy. Fusing a cheeky display amongst a middle finger to display provocative. This sculpture is made only of lather together with placed outdoors. I wonder... already 'disfigured' when nosotros saw it, but I gauge that's the interactive part, you lot tin lav rub your hands against the sculpture together with launder your hands past times the basin (seen on the right).
Titled: Conducting Memories. This interactive display recorded sounds inwards the olden days till acquaint days, recording the of import events inwards Singapore history. Very clever.
Titled: Anahata. This locomote comprises to a greater extent than than 4000kg of saga seeds collected across SEA. Located inwards the centre of the Singapore Arts Museum, it also represents the heartbeat of the museum.
Titled: Terra Sensa-Lovell
Titled: Between Worlds. Another spectacular fine art slice which sees Wayang puppets placed within drinking glass bottles together with lit upward to mimic the consequence of television.
Titled: Lit Cities. Created past times Singapore creative somebody Ng Joon Kiat, this canvass sees thick pigment creating optical illusion of moving shapes that loosely translates the concept of a map, nonetheless whatsoever attempts to meet the details upward unopen is futile.
This is how the 'map' looks from afar.
Titled: The Garden. Another locomote past times Singaporean Sean Lee, he confronts mortality, past times photographing dissimilar parts of his parents' bodies. Captured equally upward unopen inwards an abstract way, they are almost unrecognisable together with depicts possible forms of nature.
Titled: Tiempos Muertos (Dead Season) Glittering diamonds cast from sugar, which is a reach from the City of Bacolod, Philippines where the creative somebody is from.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 corner for viewers to pen downwards their views on the Birnnale's theme- If The World Changed.
Titled: Specula. Specula is latin for mirror together with this locomote serves equally a mirror through which the creative somebody examines her transnational identity equally a Vietnamese inwards a unusual country, equally an American.
This installation uses Vienamese lacquer on epoxy together with fireglass composite, inviting viewers to pace inwards together with reverberate on our ain identity together with image.
Title: El Fin del Mundo ( the destination of the world) a video installation.
Titled: Mandi Bunga ( Flower Bath). The creative somebody engaged 100 people whereby they designed together with fabricated yellowish costumes adorned amongst flowers.
Photos of the engagment activites amongst the artisit done before on inwards the Biennale calendar week were on display.
Titled: The Sick Classroom. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 replica of a classroom inwards the hamlet of the artist's inwards myanmar. The creative somebody sculpted inwards wood, students from the hamlet school's degree 1 class.
Another highlight of Biennale is this surprisingly 'sensational' fine art slice past times Japan's teamLab. Titled: Peace tin lav live Realised Even Without Order, viewers were inwards for a process when they stepped into a nighttime room, welcomed past times brilliant cut-out figures interacting amongst i another. This interactive digital installation created a symphony of audio together with campaign based on how viewers navigate to a greater extent than or less the exhibit, triggering motions sensors along the way.
This artwork is definitely my favourite slice of all.
Integrating techonology amongst fine art together with music, this slice is truely engaging for the viewers.
This is the sensor monitor amongst colors representing audio together with rhythm. Way cool! Indeed the most intelligent together with impactful exhibit of all.
Enjoy the video I took ( updated version)!
Seriously sureal, you lot volition live transported to a globe of primitive trip the low-cal fantastic together with indifenous festivals inwards Nippon amongst the orchestra of music together with dance.
Seriously sureal, you lot volition live transported to a globe of primitive trip the low-cal fantastic together with indifenous festivals inwards Nippon amongst the orchestra of music together with dance.
Titled: My longhouse Story. These onil on canvass colorful paintings clit the artist's sense growing upward inwards a longhouse inwards Kudat, northward Sabah.
Titled: Hope Brings Us Here
An interactive wooden platform which sees resin beads embedded amongst photographic images that enables visitors to notice these invisible realities.
They are together with hence tiny, you lot guide keep to sit down or lay downwards to choose a unopen hold off at the photos.
Titled: The v regulation No-s
Titled: Forefinger. These fingers were clothed inwards exotic materials such equally beast bone, fur, leather etc. The forefinger is the 'trigger finger' vital to soldiers together with anti-war activists inwards Vietnam would cutting of this finger to avoid conspiracy,
Titled: Mangrowe. Inspired past times mangrove trees institute inwards coastal areas inwards SEA.
Titled: Urban Play. This installation explores problems inwards the artisits' host metropolis inwards Indonesia.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 whimsical video, it shows how the artists, together amongst the villagers amongst children inwards particular, collected pieces of rubbish scraps, together with later on create upward slice past times slice via taping,created a HUGE BALL.
See? In a affair of days, this huge giantic ball was formed together with was happily rolling through the lanes of the villages, much to the surprise together with amazement of the locals.
Titled: Waiting Room. This fine art locomote echos the many episodes of 'waiting' faced past times transgender, such equally waiting for family's credence etc. The pamphlets together with posters are printed amongst drawings to clit sense of humor together with appeal for world awareness.
Micmicking the typical hospital setup.
I actualy honey the dark together with white theme together with the cut-out displays.
Titled: The Great Puddle. Chinese ink together with its odour whipped upward a sense of rich histroy, tradition together with culture. Its darkness hints at hiddens ecrets lurking inwards the corners pf the pool.
The reflective surface reveals together with interrogated much of the rich history together with civilization of the Chinese.
A parody of the merger inwards 1963 betwixt Singapore together with Malaysia, this video installation is a happy sing-a-along to illustrates on what happens fif nosotros had stayed merged equally 1 the world today.
Titled: The Loofah Trellis. In Vietnam "Loofah" is a street cite for lactating mothers. The locomote highlights the agency past times which females shape is objectified together with subjected to the gaze of others.
Untitled. This video installation sees the creative somebody entering the lakes at dissimilar stages of their 'development' together with pouring a bucket of sand over his head, equally the Cambodian regime allows the lakes to live filled amongst sand together with live offered for private sales.
Titled: The Old Man together with the Sea. Singaporean Erica Lai worked amongst fourscore students who 'returned' pocket-sized lots of reclaimed the world on which their schoolhouse has been built, dorsum to the imaginary 'sea' that Lai created.
Soils collected from parts of reclaimed land.
Titled: Toko Keperluan. This locomote recreates the sense of the old-fashioned provisions store inwards Jakarta, Indonesia.
Thanks for reading this long long post on the Biennale, promise you lot guide keep enjoyed yourself at this year's Singapore Biennale equally much equally nosotros had.
Amazingly, nosotros saw many tourists who came only to see the Biennale. Just goes to exhibit that the Singapore Biennale has locomote an iconic fine art lawsuit locally together with a wonderful platform to farther showcase the arty side of our nation.
Was actually impressed past times the artworks this twelvemonth from all the Southeast Asia regions, definitely to a greater extent than engaging together with impactful than before.
Was actually impressed past times the artworks this twelvemonth from all the Southeast Asia regions, definitely to a greater extent than engaging together with impactful than before.
Well done to the commission together with nosotros hold off forwards to the Biennale 2 years later on
