Two South-east Asian artists are currently featured in solo exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum, united by their strong connection to their respective communities. Malaysian artist Yee I-Lann’s exhibition, 'Mansau-Ansau', presents a series of engaging and thought-provoking photocollages that challenge power and colonialism, alongside unexpected encounters with other large-scale media.
Two South-east Asian artists have solos at the Singapore Art Museum, connected by their active engagement with the communities they are working in.
One of the first encounters is a vertical silk triptych, an apocalyptic portrayal of three classes of society rendered with inkjet print and batik techniques. Power dynamics is once more Yee’s subject as she works with women in Sabah’s Kampung Song-Song to weave makeshift mats from deconstructed cardboard boxes.
Yee has collaged photos of these Kerbau, usually placid, so they gather on streets signified by orange cones in an act of political defiance. Singapore is the only South-east Asian country without buffaloes, Yee notes.Thai artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s No Patents On Ideas, also at SAM, is less flashy – just five works in a dark room that slopes gently skywards.
These hidden systems of power and wealth exchange are also referenced in a subsequent screensaver of falling banknotes that mimic Singapore’s meteorological patterns.
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