Confronting the ongoing state of transformation that characterizes their native Singapore, two artists exhibiting at a new exhibition, ¡°Welcome to the Jungle,¡± adopt quite different approaches and media. Francis Ng in ¡°Constructing Construction #1¡± turns his camera on an unfinished section of an ugly new highway, a speeding bus whizzing by. Hong Sek Chern, meanwhile, applies Chinese ink to traditional rice paper to map out a multiple-faceted view of the country¡¯s public-housing apartments in ¡°Constructing Old and New.¡±
The two different interpretations of the urban sprawl fit the theme taken up by Yokohama Museum of Art for its latest exhibition, where ¡°jungle,¡± relates to concrete as much as it does to foliage.
All the works on display are on loan from the collection of the Singapore Art Museum, but the exhibition reflects a commitment to the contemporary art of the whole of Southeast Asia with a selection of works by a total of 28 artists from across the region.
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