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>The Spectacle of the Spectacles: By the ShanghART Singapore gallery this month, check out a group exhibition by eight Chinese contemporary artists titled The Spectacle of Spectacles. These artists include Ding Yi, Xu Zhen, Shi Qing, Sun Xun, Shi Yong, Tang Maohong, Zhang Enli, and Zhou Tiehai.

Through a mixture of mediums such as paintings, installations, photographs and videos, each artist's individual work contributes to the overall exhibition in a way that encourages viewers to employ the Chinese philosophy of reflecting on a profound subject through observing its smaller components. The aim of their works is to explore a statement by French Marxist theorist Guy Debord, in his publication titled The Society of the Spectacle, where he examines the separation between superficial representation and reality.