A MANY CON(SEQUENCE)
(Scrolling LED panel, 66cm x 10cm, 2019)
A constant stream of catchphrases that speak of the tropics and its history that could as well serve as stand-in titles for the many unnamed artworks in an exhibition:
tropics, a many (con)sequence
tropics: a gap in knowledge
tropics (their image formal though somewhat bucolic)
tropics: a history of climate racism
the tropical imaginary
the reverse modernity
a hot and humid epistemology
one could not think
jungle: the white cube, its obverse
their humanity / our humidity
nature
tropics at the first frontier
tropics at the final frontier
wild, abundant, vibrant
rational, geometric, colourless
performing the tropics with Malaya
bridging of eastern and western art
expression of local tropical flavor
View of Changi
Gibbons II
Installation view: National University of Singapore Museum