Two art exhibits focusing on the ocean will be on display for the sixth iteration of the Imaginarium event at the Singapore Art Museum. One will be more geared toward children, with fun and hands-on displays, while the other will offer contemporary musings on the sea for adults. The displays will take place in both the Singapore Art Museum and one of its annexes, coinciding with the museum’s 20th anniversary.
The exhibitions include a wide and varied body of art sure to attract the attention of many visitors to the Singapore Art Museum, including a tall, towering ship made of collected wood and secondhand cargo boxes. The ship teems with life and detail, seeming more like a busy skyscraper than a loaded boat, and may offer some sort of commentary on how we use the sea, including as transportation, commerce, and all of the possible repercussions of those practices.
Another piece is a mechanical mudfox, a moving sculpture of a fish complete with machinery, lights, and interacting parts. Suspended from the ceiling, this lively sculpture has a number of fins that lets viewers imagine they are seeing a gigantic specimen never before seen swimming through the air.
Still another interesting piece in the seafaring show is a jumbled tableau of people, skeletons, and other items breathing together and occupying the same, small, cramped space. The artist uses interesting mediums to construct the artwork, including car paint and oil, insects and shells, cables and lights, and much more. This might reflect on humans and pollution in the ocean, or the way that humans and modern life affects all other things.
Other sculptural artworks include a many-eyed white porcelain and terracotta whale breaching through the floor, as well as fluffy and friendly sea animals and plants that have been crocheted and knitted to construct a soft reef ecosystem.
Besides all of the artwork that will be on display during the Imaginarium event, organizers hope to bring ecological issues such as conservation, climate change, pollution, and more into the spotlight.
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