Gain a different perspective of the sea at SAM's latest - and last - exhibition of the year
By Pamela Chow. Photos: Pamela Chow
The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will open an intriguing exhibition this weekend to accompany its sister museum's Imaginarium 2016 exhibition, and it's a trove of wonders.
"Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas", running from Jun 4 to Aug 28, showcases explorations of the ocean by artists from Singapore, Southeast Asia and beyond. It will be the museum's last exhibition before preparing for the Singapore Biennale.
Here are seven of the most intriguing artworks to be discovered at the exhibition.
6. “Ocean’s Room” by Ashley Yeo (Singapore) and Monica So-Young Moon (South Korea)
This literally nameless room features an assemblage of objects, from a school of ceramic whales hovering above a coral hair pin to a giant 3m-tall silk dress decorated with marine snow.
It attempts to articulate a unified personification of the sea, thus its allusion to the ocean’s nameless and genderless identity.
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