"We take immense pride in being the definitive home for Southeast Asian Art and as a space where the regional arts community connects,"
"remain grounded in our original proposition: bodies of water are not borders but ways of sensing and inhabiting the world. As in Shanghai, we draw from [the Tongan and Fijian writer] Epeli Hau'ofa's vision of the Pacific as a 'sea of islands', shaped by relations, memory and movement."
"We are inviting artists whose practices think with tides, straits, migration routes and maritime infrastructures,"
"Their works allow the Singapore iteration to become not a repetition of Shanghai, but an expansion shaped by another shoreline-one that bears the weight of global circulation and the memories of those who once lived"
Singapore's complex multicultural identity is explored through Singapore Art Week 2026, organised by the National Arts Council and positioned as a hub for Southeast Asian art. The Wan Hai Hotel exhibition, adapted from a Shanghai edition at Rockbund Art Museum, treats bodies of water as modes of sensing and habitation rather than borders, drawing on Epeli Hau'ofa's vision of the Pacific as a 'sea of islands'. The Singapore iteration runs at The Warehouse Hotel from 20–31 January and features Singaporean, regional and diaspora artists whose practices engage tides, migration routes, maritime infrastructures, global circulation and collective memory.
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