Wanderland

Imaginarium, 2017

Singapore Art Museum

“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” - Junichiro Tanizaki

“To the Ends of the Earth” is an ambitious expression of immeasurable vastness that incites a sense of wonderment and curiosity towards what is unknown. There is no semblance of an ending or a beginning, but simply an implication of directive movement; Onward and expansive made into existence that is open to light and vision, or the absence of light and vision.

Berger said, “The visible brings the world to us [and] the visible with its space also takes the world away from us.” Ironically, this visual experience of absence enables man to engage with his own imagination for it is within the comfort of his own inner space that he constructs meaning when play becomes imagination.

Wanderland invites the audience to play with their imagination while hanging mobile structures or textile interact with light as they bathe in the maze of colors, shadows and obscure landscapes. They are also deliberately encouraged to meander within the hanging soft structures to create movement and sound.

Through this shared kinetic energy, Wanderland aims to construct a playground where both art & audience wander to wonder, where this co-existence brings meaning to one another.

Photo credits: Aloysius Lim