Exhibition Period: 17 Sep 2010 - 11 Mar 2011. Discordant Symmetries is a culmination of a year-long study by artist Wei Leng Tay questioning what it means to be Chinese in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia. Through still-life, portraiture photography and audio interviews, the exhibition aims to capture the tenuous relationship between the greater discourses of diaspora, identity, and the nuanced limits of these discourses in light of the growing globalization of culture and other socio-political influences. While these greater discourses do provide historical context to broader issues, the exhibition seeks to question the relevance of these much-discussed and increasingly politicized discourses and their effects on the ethnic Chinese communities. This exhibition was developed under the auspice of the National Arts Council’s Arts Creation Fund.
To download: http://nus.edu.sg/museum/pdf/2010/Discordant_Symmetries.pdf
