It makes me wonder how much time they spent on it, and how long they spent to create works of such high quality. We only had about an hour to browse works though, so
I'm gonna feature some of my favourites in this post, so it could get a bit long.
The pics aren't of very good quality though...
This one, by Jiang Wenhuan of National Junior College, is a rather social commentary-style piece describing the "little emperors" caused by China's one-child policy, though the setting is a little more surrealistic like Lucia Hartini's works.
There are some hidden references in the work (the most obvious one being the emperor's throne). Up in the top background there are ancient-style line drawings of ancient Chinese people (philosophers?) which I think may represent the ancient Confucian values of moral aptitude, respect for parents etc which the artist may think is being thrown away in today's society. The right arm of the throne is a dragon, while the left is a worm (Ms. Xie pointed that out). There are two rats near the subject matter's right foot (possibly his parents...?)
This piece hits home for me; even though I'm not a male only child spoiled by his parents, I can roughly guess how terrible parents would feel with a spoilt child, especially when the child grows up...
Done by Melvin Koh of Nanyang Junior College, it's quite light-hearted. Literally.
Even though there isn't a very philosophical message behind it, it was still very clever.
There are two lamps on either side that turn on and off alternately. Here's what happens when the left lamp's lit...And here's what happens when the right one's lit.
Made using a large board with pieces of paper of different sizes stuck upright on them.
(Take that, Batman!)
And my most favourite...
THE FACTS OF FICTION
This one is very professional. Natural history re-written, by Tan Yui Wei of Nanyang Junior College.
The whole installation's like a small museum on its own, in a small corner of the exhibition hall. This artist invented her own species by combining plant and animal species. She also hand-crafted fossils using ceramics (the bones were so life-like I almost thought they were real until I saw remaining fingerprints). Then she wrote blueprints of creature designs, with species family trees, chromosome pairings (using purple colour pencils) and made insects out of withered leaves.
Apologies for the crappy arrangement, I have major problems toggling pics on Blogger.
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