Group Exhibition ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Discover the possible futures of Singapore 200 years from now through a series of immersive installations, meditative spaces, films, paintings and sculptures.
Inspired by the work of Singaporean writer and poet Alvin Pang, 2219: Futures Imagined marks this year’s Singapore Bicentennial by looking two centuries into the future.
While we cannot be entirely sure what is to come, each section of this exhibition hinges on the scientific certainty that changes in our climate will require us all to adapt. This massive global transformation will act as a backdrop, upon which Singapore’s daily life, communities, cultures and traditions will evolve and change.
Neither a utopian or dystopian view of the distant future and resisting the clichés of science fiction, this exhibition focuses on small, human-scale acts of innovation and contemplation. The exhibition intends for visitors to reflect on what kind of future they want for Singapore, and what actions they may be prepared to take in order to bring that future into being.
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The Bizarre Honour by Robert Zhao Renhui as part of the exhibition “2219: Futures Imagined” in Art Science Museum, Singapore.
Founder of the Institute of Critical Zoologists, Robert Zhao Renhui’s work is based on his observations of the natural world and blends both documentary and fiction. The Bizarre Honour draws on the collection of the Institutite in order to explore Singapore's contentious relationship with nature, from its time as a colony to its period as city state. Presented as a “cabinet of curiosity" containing natural specimens and rarities, look out for gems including The Singapore Stone, a coconut pear and more.
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