Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Cao Fei

Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Cao Fei

Sam I-shan, Ed

Format: Print Book

ISBN: 9789811449413

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This publication spotlights ?? Fú Chá, a kinetic installation commissioned for the Gallery’s Roof Garden series. It includes a curatorial essay on the work by curator Sam I-shan, a poem by the artist Liao Huilan and a series of vignettes by Cao Fei herself.

Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Author Biography: Sam I-shan is a curator with an interest in time-based media, photography, and art and politics. With fifteen years’ experience in art institutional settings, she was previously curator at National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum and Esplanade Visual Arts. Her monographic, research-focused exhibitions at NGS include the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Cao Fei, and Georgette Chen: At Home in the World. At Esplanade, she curated and managed new commissions and site-specific exhibitions, working with a range of regional artists. Her exhibitions at SAM include Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia. She also headed film and moving image initiatives there, specialising in Artist Films, and co-programming the annual Southeast Asian Film Festival. She lives and works in Singapore and Cambodia.
Language: English
Country of Origin: Singapore
Page count: 60
Binding: Hardback
Search words: National Gallery Singapore, Cao Fei, Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission, Roof Garden Gallery, Site-Specific Installation



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