Simryn Gill, Untitled, 2014. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum.
Singapore Art Museum (SAM) unveils new works by leading Southeast Asian artists Simryn Gill and Charles Lim Yi Yong, the exhibition The Sea is a Field presents observations captured through film, photography and text by Gill and Lim of a trip made along the Malacca Strait using a network of local ferries that connect small port towns across Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
This presentation reveals the innner workings of the collaboration between Gill, Lim and curators Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol and Selene Yap as part of the inaugural SAM Fellowship programme, an initiative by the museum to support deep, open-ended inquiry through long-term investment in artistic process.
The exhibition runs 12 January - 21 April 2024.
March 1, 2024
