In these days, when the global and the local mix in new and spectacular ways, places like Singapore have a special place in the minds of savvy world travelers. Its multicultural urban culture has always been attuned to the newest trends, and has a great respect for the best of world tradition. Singapore offers a cultural scene that is like none other, with a rich array of offerings in music, theatre, and dance, and also has a tremendous visual art scene. It is a place that accommodates the best of tastes, and to get the real flavor, it’s recommended to see it from a hotel whose rank is five star,Singapore has a great tradition of hospitality, and one can really experience it in luxury lodgings.
Our hotels are selected from Singapore’s finest, to give you the splendor you deserve while you enjoy the richness of the place. After a rest in our gloriously-furnished rooms, enjoy a fine meal served by our master chefs, and set out to see the sights in Singapore. There is a lot of visually stunning sights here, from the large-scale to the smallest detail, and it’s easy to find yourself looking for work by local artists, to see what some focus might do to these disparate images on the streets. If you happen to find an exhibition by the great visual artist Matthew Ngui, you may have to refocus a few times. His installations are famous for their ability to stun the viewer with its tricks of perception.
Matthew Ngui likes to play with how we see, as much as offering complex content to what we do see. His video works and sculptures have an ability to change shape, so that what they look like from far away is something altogether different than what they are up close. It’s a mastery of visual manipulations, but it reveals a much deeper agenda for the artist. He’s from Singapore and splits his time between here and Perth, where his instructor Ng Eng Tengalso lives. His body of work is dedicated to asking questions about knowing, and specifically about how knowledge is embedded in culture. Apart from sculpture and video, he is also known for his food performances, where preparation is part of the installation, and food becomes a cultural product which can be consumed by the spectator. Through these actions, he is asking the audience to ask questions back, to critically engage in how meaning and knowledge are shared, and often, confused, in a time of multiple meanings.
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