Naked Perfection
Group Exhibition Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Artists: TANG Da Wu 唐大雾 | 

This exhibition was first conceptualised as a way to display the growing collection of nudes and naked figures in the Singapore Art Museum’s collection. The title relates to a talk and slide presentation I first gave in 1999, where the subject was well received, judging by the number of attendees that day. One of the speculative reasons for this could be the taboo or prohibitive nature society attaches to nudes, nudity or nakedness. Frankly, human curiosity has a way of taking over the more we are prevented from seeing a complete picture. In art however, it seems most of us have been conditioned and educated to understand the dynamics of nude or naked representation. We often see this kind of nudity as legitimate and not taboo.[...]

What this exhibition hopes to illustrate, is perhaps some notion of differentiation: that the final presentation of a so-called nude stems from a composite origin that has little to do with the perceptions and knowledge we bring to an image when we look at it. Finally, it hopes to show that naked perfection is an anomaly, the exception, to what we regard as sensuous or erotic. Perfection that is naked is even rarer than perfection per se; its final resolution in art, when deconstructed, often proves unprovocative
and unremarkable.

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