Dawn Ng, MERRY GO ROUND (2019)
Strange Things is a show populated by unfamiliar entities and alien objects. Interventions, disruptions, interpositions, negotiations - the works included in the present exhibition represent a range of responses to the material and visual milieu of the derelict structures of the 2 Cavan Road complex. Dating from the early 1930s, the now disused factory space represents an eclipsed historical presence in the layers of the palimpsest that is Singapore's urban fabric. The objects and bodies of Strange Things, like transplanted beings in an otherworldly landscape, are playful, meditative, exotic, phantasmagorical.