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    On a Clear Day You Can See Forever by Tan Pin Pin.
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    Singapore Biennale at Orchard Road

    February 14 in Singapore ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

    My friend Min and I checked out the Singapore Biennale installations at Lucky Plaza and Far East Shopping Centre, which are two of the least glitzy malls in the shopping district.

    The first installation we saw was On a Clear Day You Can See Forever by Tan Pin Pin. In this exhibit, two films are shown concurrently. One shows Inuka, Singapore's captive born polar bear swimming in his enclosure, and the other shows scenes from a car driving along the Pan Island Expressway. Ostensibly, this was to show two types of movement juxtaposed.

    The second installation was State of Assembly by Gabriela Golder, and the last was a mockup of a Filipino home karaoke room which was especially poignant because Lucky Plaza is a gathering place for Filipino migrant workers.

    After Lucky Plaza, we trooped over to Far East Shopping Center. The first three exhibits were pretentious. The last exhibit we saw was Entropy Study and Cloud Gazing by Yuro Pattison which showed building models from real estate developments in China. We quite liked this last one.    Read more