The state of the visual arts is often symptomatic of their socio-political environment. In Singapore, the production and management of the visual arts is primarily negotiated through an economic ideology which transposes subject matter through the three-fold distinction of West, East and intra-SEAsia. The development of a Singaporean identity is going on through the process…

The island republic of Singapore, located slightly off the north of equator in Southeast Asia, is home to about four million people. Almost all of them come from migrant families. As such, issues of national, personal, ethnic and social identity imprint themselves on their psyches. Displacement, migration, exile and diaspora define them. There is a…