A contemporary art facility in Singapore is offering an exciting and immersive show that features artists from all different kinds of backgrounds and experiences. Everyone from composers and filmmakers to painters and other artists will show their work at the exhibit, knit together by a common theme: the ocean. Partly inspired by oceanic expeditions, and also influenced by the pressing need to take action to save the essential and sometimes delicate ecosystems present in the ocean, visitors can anticipate a diverse offering of art. Those who attend the show will also be treated to ambient sounds of the ocean, recorded on some of the expeditions that inspired several pieces of art.
In a screen capture of a video art piece that will be shown in the exhibit, a hand holds a 10-euro note under a blacklight. The blacklight illuminates various security features of the note, including neon-colored aqueducts and a bright map of Europe. The euro unites many countries in the union, offering a common and strong currency for many to use. In the same vein, though, viewers are forced to wonder just what is gained and lost with such a common currency. Are there winners and losers in the exchange? What about the seafaring ideas of colonialism?
A digital art piece that will be on display is a curiosity for many viewers. What appears to be a topographical map, rendered in 3-D, is actually a collaboration of math, science, and myth. The artist used a formula to map out radiation from an atoll where nuclear weapons were tested, resulting in a surreal formation of a landscape we perhaps don’t understand yet.
Another still of a four-part video that visitors can view is puzzling and richly textured. At first glance, what appears to be a long and tangled centipede grips a webbing of flowers. However, on closer examination, the animal is like a type of starfish, and it is hanging on with multiple arms to a formation of coral or underwater vegetations. It is a delicate, precarious, and powerful image all at once, and visitors should look forward to getting the rest of the story from the videos.
Another image that will be on display at the oceanic exhibit documents a colorful canoe that is typical to a group of people. Art merges with life in the intricate and beautiful ornamentations on the watercraft, which features swirls and inlaid curls of white, blue, and red on the stern.
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To read more about the display and see a sneak peek of some of the works that will be available to view during the show, go to http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2749058/the-oceanic-at-ntu-centre-for-contemporary-art-singapore.