Singapore Art Week 2020: Its best yet
The 8th Singapore Art Week was more confident than ever, although buying activity remained modest
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Helmi Yusof
AT THE DE:VOTED art show at Helutrans, artist Urich Lau had set up a 360 degree video camera that captured in real time all the visitors from all angles. The image was simultaneously projected onto the walls of the room, and sometimes compressed or contorted to heighten the sense of threat and instability.
Millennial and Gen Z visitors happily sipped their drinks and chatted away, completely accustomed to having their movements captured and transmitted. But Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers sometimes looked unnerved.
Outside the exhibition space, a young woman in a white bridal dress dragged a hefty queen-sized bed across the floor. She towed it with a red cloth; the bed itself wrapped in blood-red sheets. Sometimes she gave up and slumped on the bed - the sheer weight of Andy Yang's feminist-themed work nearly crushing her.
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