A Flow of Identities and A Breath of Wills provided a constellation of artistic perspectives that provide unexpected ways of seeing the world and ourselves. A Flow of Identities Entangled in the contingencies of experience, the concepts and formation of national, regional, cultural and individual identities are recognised as mutable…

Walls and boundaries bear witness that overlapping territories are strategically and ideologically mapped and staked; yet is there common ground, belonging to neither party on either side of the drawn line? “If you can dream a better world you can make a… (2016) by Melissa Tan This work features laboriously…

Contemplating cyclical time brings insight into how myths influence human conditioning; when, and why, story tells more than history; and our lives amidst timespans of elemental substances that transcend human measure. Inscription of the Island (2016) by Lim Soo Ngee In Lim’s imagination, this was once part of a colossal…

In naming his fictional island ‘Utopia’, writer Thomas More conjoined the Greek words for ‘good place’ and ‘no place’ – a reminder that the idealised society he conjured was fundamentally phantasmal. And yet, the search and yearning for Utopia is a ceaseless humanist endeavor. Predicated on possibility and hope, utopian…