Negotiating Home, History and Nation , Two Decades of Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia, 1991-2010
Group Exhibition Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Artists: TANG Da Wu 唐大雾 | 

Negotiating Home, History and Nation presents the work created over the last two decades, by fifty-four seminal practitioners in contemporary art form six Southeast Asian countries. This extensive survey gives audiences the opportunity to form a cogent picture of the diverse realities and threads linking Southeast Asia and its art through inquiries in to topics such as nation building, urbanisation, and religious and gender discourse from an Asian perspective.

Amongst the artists featured are Agus Suwage (Indonesia), Vasan Sitthiket (Thailand), Suzann Victor (Singapore), Wong Hoy Cheong (Malaysia) and Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan (The Philippines). Through a broad range of media including photography, video, painting, performance and installation art, the exhibition provides an entry to the specific characteristics of Southeast Asia’s aesthetic language and offers a key to understanding some of the region’s more recent political and social developments. Its exclusive content is the first such large-scale Asian presentation of contemporary Southeast Asian art.

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