Singapore & South East Asian Art - Development from 1965 to today

Sunday 4 August 2013

Dream Land (Installation Art Series, 2002)

By Made Wianta



Image of promotional poster for installation art exhibition. (Dream Land promtional poster picture, n.d.).

     In Wianta’s Dream Land, the irony between the exhibition title and the exhibitions themselves is distinct. Wianta reflects the situation in Bali during the period of the notorious terrorist bombings that rocked the whole of South East Asia (Hendratmo-Brown, 2011). Images of the horrific scenes and moments after the attacks are meant to be displayed all over the viewing space. Eight human remains are placed, facing eight different directions, on a dense pile of rice grains as the main installation of the exhibition (Coteau, 2003, para. 4).

References

Coteau, J. (2003). The Kuta bombing: Wianta’s scream of horror. Retrieved from http://www.balidiscovery.com/messages/message.asp?Id=1191
Dream Land installation art exhibition promotional poster [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.madewianta.com/dreamland.html
Hendratmo-Brown, D. (2011, July 11). Made Wianta: Razor sharp. The Jakarta Post. Retrieved from http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/07/11/made-wianta-razor-sharp.html

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