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SINGAPORE BIENNALE!!!

yayy i finally went to the Biennale yesterday =]
I was really looking forward to it and great it didnt disappoint =] There were alot of amazing, intricate, intriguing works, not to mention a fair share of pieces that... hmm.. requires deep thinking or a new point of view. haha =]
I had fun :D

We firstly found our way to the old parliment house and this greeted us

whoo maggots! I think they're really cute. though i still dont get the whole idea behind the work.

and this was a major piece that covered the whole wall in front of the staircase. It was made of dried paint.

imagine that. the amount of paint used. haha

And this is just woah. at first glance i thought the scooter was real! but nope

i have no idea in the whole how the artist did it. hes a pretty amazing crafter isnt he.

This was one of my favourite pieces of work! It was a series of family portraits of the artist and her family. And the special thing about it was that the family kept the same positions and pose, while the people changed. hahaha the series of portraits is seriously funny :D like the one below :) the family was so cute! hahaha the dad is in an anna sui top hahaha super cute :)))
and i particularly like it because it really shows the who the artist is (both literally and not) and allows us to connect to who she is :))))

In the main hall there was a huge interactive work. There was a huge google earth image on the floor, and the artist meant for visitors to write on post-its little nuggets of info of the place they lived in and stick it onto its image on the floor.

but apparently singaporeans dont know our geography well enough and cant be bothered to write seriously so there were alot of random notes, which made it all the more cuterr interestingly:D

(this says "I GIVE UP FINDING MY HOUSE!!! I'll just drown in the sea)
:)

little little post-its

and this was my favourite favourite work. because i understood it and the intricacy just amazes me. i saw something that wowed my senses.
basically the idea for this work is differences.
at first when i walked into the room i saw a parched landscape, of gloom and darkness.

and as i walked over to the other side of the room i saw a land booming with life. it was so pretty!!! i was really caught by surprise, a really good surprise that is =]]
i just broke out into a smile and felt a feeling of joy. haha it so undescribable, just really gripping joy

it was a really amazing sight to behold =] the artist is too cool really. and imagine the amount of work put into this. imbaaaaaa

another favourite! woodcarving! the artist is amazing i take my hat off him. we've all did woodcarving in school before and im sure we know its really not easy. and this artist did like what 200 pieces of work! and theyre all very precise and detailed.

breathtaking. it was photographed and connected into a music video =]]

JEAN! (martians!)

There were really alot of other cool stuff at old parliment, like the flaming room which freaked me out. Do go check it out!!

and then we walked a whole long way under the blazing sun to south beach development, where there were cool works too!

dancer


hair salon - it appears like the mirrors are reflecting the room, but in fact, the mirrors are holes and there is another room on the other side with the exact same furniture and detailing! they even printed the description card the flip side round. very coool! and i really liked the salon for its vintage retro feel :))))


my reflection in the mirror =]

this reminds me of walle haah




this wall painting is called superline! how apt because the drawing is of one line. its the adventure of a line! :)

go visit the biennale!! its really insightful :) oooooooooooo yeaaaa i like the white puffing room. it deflates and inflates and keeps doing so, to evoke the contraction and expansion of space. coolios! :)