[...] Now in its third year, The Collectors Show is an independently curated and organised by the museum. This edition of the The Collectors Show, entitled Weight of History, is curated by SAM curator Michelle Ho. Beyond a gathering of sublime works, this exhibition demonstrates the value and coherence that museum curation can bring to contemporary art presentations. While the artists come from diverse individual backgrounds, the exhibition attempts to show how commonalities reside, through the issues that artists deal with, and their respective languages of expression which dialogue with each other. The exhibition features the works of 22 artists from the Asia Pacific region, examining how the themes of aesthetic, social and political histories as well as cultural memories continue to inspire artists today.[...]