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| Article number | 9789811759666 |
| Price | 30,00 € |
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Ho Tzu Nyen
Time & the Tiger
November 21, 2025 - April 12, 2026 | Special Exhibition | Exhibition Catalogue | Language English
The exhibition Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger is the first survey exhibition dedicated to the artist Ho Tzu Nyen (*1976) and his diverse artistic practice. Ho is considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the last twenty years. He creates complex and captivating video installations that explore the reality, history and fiction rooted in Southeast Asian culture.
As a visual artist, writer, theater and filmmaker, Ho Tzu Nyen's work has repeatedly challenged the conventional hierarchies in our understanding of the past. Drawing on historical events, documentaries, art history, music videos and mythical narratives, his immersive multimedia installations explore the construction of history, the telling of myths, the passing of time and the diversity of identities.
Time & the Tiger traces the development of Ho's work through the Tiger and other changing characters who convey the promise of becoming and metamorphoses, as well as time as an embodied and heterogeneous experience. Ho works with a variety of media outlets to critically examine how history, whether state, cultural, or personal, is continually imagined, negotiated, and performed. Ho comments on the cross-cultural character of Southeast Asia, drawing on a wide range of themes, from pre-colonial and colonial myths to European Renaissance paintings, modernist narratives and geopolitics to cinematic representations of a hybridized and unstable present.
Paperback | Publisher Singapore Art Museum | Editors Eugene Tan, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa | 208 pages
Time & the Tiger
November 21, 2025 - April 12, 2026 | Special Exhibition | Exhibition Catalogue | Language English
The exhibition Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger is the first survey exhibition dedicated to the artist Ho Tzu Nyen (*1976) and his diverse artistic practice. Ho is considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the last twenty years. He creates complex and captivating video installations that explore the reality, history and fiction rooted in Southeast Asian culture.
As a visual artist, writer, theater and filmmaker, Ho Tzu Nyen's work has repeatedly challenged the conventional hierarchies in our understanding of the past. Drawing on historical events, documentaries, art history, music videos and mythical narratives, his immersive multimedia installations explore the construction of history, the telling of myths, the passing of time and the diversity of identities.
Time & the Tiger traces the development of Ho's work through the Tiger and other changing characters who convey the promise of becoming and metamorphoses, as well as time as an embodied and heterogeneous experience. Ho works with a variety of media outlets to critically examine how history, whether state, cultural, or personal, is continually imagined, negotiated, and performed. Ho comments on the cross-cultural character of Southeast Asia, drawing on a wide range of themes, from pre-colonial and colonial myths to European Renaissance paintings, modernist narratives and geopolitics to cinematic representations of a hybridized and unstable present.
Paperback | Publisher Singapore Art Museum | Editors Eugene Tan, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa | 208 pages