Maggots, 2004, Pham, Ngoc Duong

Next was a work by Singaporean Artist Jane Lee called Raw Canvas. firstly, it's HUGE. Secondly, it looks like a Pollock. Thirdly, it might be even better than a pollock. Fourth, you really wonder how many tubes of paint she used on it, and fifth, they must have been really huge tubes of paint. finally, like...WOW.

Then, me and sara found a work that shang and seow missed. a three channel video work called El naufragio de los hombre (the wreck of men), by Nijensohn, Charly. so basically, what u see when u look at it is 3 different videos - though they all show images with the same kind of theme and feel. they depict scenes of water and sky, sometimes you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. and there's always the silhouette or silhouettes of men, who are just standing very still on the water. the work was captivating and haunting..

Onward! the very pretty FLOWER work! we walked and it's an immediate WOW. ppl instinctively get on their knees on the floor to get a photograph of it. so fun ta watch them. and something which we din notice until later was that one side the flowers all black, but the other side was all in colour! haha..the fun was in the watching the black and white turn to colour as u walked from one side of the artwork to the other. definitely one of my favourite works - Blackfield, Ben-David, Zadok.

The next one i really liked was this 3D painting/sculpture. What's so great bout this one is the technicality. as in..OMG. i dunt even noe how to describe how impressed i was by this one. like..it looks damn 3D when u look at from a certain angle..and u'd expect the 3D figures to be popping OUT right?!?! but they weren't, they were cut IN!!! yet they looked like they were poppin OUT! omt..must have stared at it fer a long long time..and felt so miserable because i know that i would never have thought of such a thing in my life..

see! pooping OUT rite???

but WAIT!!! not really! it has been cut IN!!! WOW!

Ok, then it was off to south beach development. which once again, because of disgustingly absent signage, we got a little lost..walked one whole big round around the whole place before we found the entrance... by the time we reached the place, we were hot, sweaty and dead beat. so really had hard time appreciating the works there..NO AIRCON man..stuffy shit..and the place looks damn haunted. we din even finish walking the place. but while we were there, caught this interesting photograph. how befitting. =)

so. Biennale was quite fun overall. though i think that it couldv'e been better. Biennale 06 had more gimmicks. and to kids like us...u noe...WE WANT THE BADGES AND THE SOUVENIRS!!! we also want aircon..(haha. ok that's not a good reason) But Yea. i think that it was very encouraging to see so many great works by so many artists..especially Singaporean artists. makes us art geeks feel..that we might not end up being poor struggling artists after all. so that's that.