By All Estimates

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

12 April – 26 May 2019

Curator Pedro de Almeida | Curatorial Assistant Janet Jin

Special thanks to Anne Bradford, Sach Catts, Chris Ross

Taking Singapore as a locus of multiple regional identities, By All Estimates brings together works by artists that give form to narratives obscured by the city-state’s rapid urban and social development and the coexistence of competing projections of cultural inheritance and recognition.

Haw Par Villa – Video Snapshots series is part of an ongoing research project around the history and present-day incarnation of Singapore’s Haw Par Villa – A privately built park intended as a both an educational and entertaining experience that offered hundreds of statues and giant dioramas based on Chinese folk history, mythology and morality, which has changed over the years particularly after it was acquired by the Singaporean Government. In her work, Bradford excavates and further obfuscates Haw Par Villa’s layered representations of the intertwined projections of cultural and national identities that jostle among competing ideas about tradition and its processes of inheritance.

— Excerpt from Pedro de Almeida catalogue essay

Exhibition catalogue  |  Peril interview

Photography by Document Photography