Sim Chi Yin Singapur, 1978
Shifting sands #5, 2017
Archival pigment print, mounted on Alu Dibond
87 x 130 cm
(presented and sold exclusively with wooden support structure, not as a wall piece)
(presented and sold exclusively with wooden support structure, not as a wall piece)
Exhibited at Gropius Bau. * Construction material - possibly 'manufactured sand' which is crushed granite - comes in on a barge into Singapore's east coast, going past its Changi Airport,...
Exhibited at Gropius Bau.
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Construction material - possibly "manufactured sand" which is crushed granite - comes in on a barge into Singapore's east coast, going past its Changi Airport, where an aeroplane had just taken off from. Singapore, which has reclaimed about 20 per cent of its land from the sea since independence in 1965, is continually short of sand these days, after buying the resource from its Southeast Asian neighbours for years. It is trying to use alternatives and coming up with ways of construction that use less sand. As a land-strapped coastal city, Singapore tries for solutions to expand its useable land area as its population increases.
*The works in this format (87 × 130 cm) are conceived exclusively as installations presented on these wooden supports, rather than as wall-mounted pieces.
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Construction material - possibly "manufactured sand" which is crushed granite - comes in on a barge into Singapore's east coast, going past its Changi Airport, where an aeroplane had just taken off from. Singapore, which has reclaimed about 20 per cent of its land from the sea since independence in 1965, is continually short of sand these days, after buying the resource from its Southeast Asian neighbours for years. It is trying to use alternatives and coming up with ways of construction that use less sand. As a land-strapped coastal city, Singapore tries for solutions to expand its useable land area as its population increases.
*The works in this format (87 × 130 cm) are conceived exclusively as installations presented on these wooden supports, rather than as wall-mounted pieces.
These works should therefore only be exhibited and sold in this format.
Price available upon request.