Just in time for Halloween, so it may seem, a ghost awaits discovery in the old Middle Road Church.
Looking for a ghost, one might perhaps find love too at the old church.
Despite the timing of the ghost’s appearance, it has actually got little to do with the silliness of Halloween in a part of the world where the celebration should really have little or no significance.
Opening Night.
The ghost that we find at the de-consecrated church building, now perhaps in its third life as the Chapel Gallery of an arts centre we know as Sculpture Square, is an exhibition of art in its various forms, in which the body, as described on the exhibition’s website as “unruly, visceral, and ephemeral”, is used as a medium and “a site of resistance” returning to haunt us, unearthing “a different shape and understanding of Singapore”.
Eric Khoo’s Mee Pok Man.
The exhibition, Ghost: The Body at the Turn of the Century timed to coincide with the Singapore Biennale, sees installations by well known names which range from Amanda Heng to Eric Khoo and John Clang. One exhibit which is perhaps rather intriguing is Ray Langenbach’s Archive by Loo Zihan. Occupying a large part of the Chapel Gallery it resurrects the ghost of the infamous Artists’ General Assembly of 1993 and its fallout, featuring a collection from Ray Langenbach’s extensive archives – all connected by a web of thread woven by Loo Zihan.
The web of intrigue woven by artist Loo Zihan.
A ghost from the archives.
The ghost in the old church haunts Sculpture Square until 31 December 2013. More information can be found at the centre’s website.
Filed under: Art, Bras Basah, Contemporary, Events, Singapore
