Went to the Asia Art Society on Justice drive to visit the UBS exhibition No Country : Contemporary Art from Asia and South East Asia. Quite a small exhibition of art work. Below are links to pictures from some of the notable art works.
The sculpture below is by Andrew Nguyen’s Enemy’s Enemy: Monument to a Monument (2012), it commemorates a Buddhist monk in Vietnam who set himself on fire (self immolation). The piece brings together sport in the form of a baseball bat and religion the carving of the monk.
One of the more interesting exhibits was a work by Reza Afsina where he narrates verses from the bible (him being a Muslim) and slaps himself pretty hard from what it seems. I cant find a link to the video but it look very real. The point ? Bringing religions together while highlighting justice, retribution and various others. Unfortunately my brain didn't catch that and only saw someone slapping themselves very hard. Judging by the other visitor the point was lost on us, hope it wasn't too painful!
Its an interesting aside if you live in Hong Kong and the exhibition runs until Feb 2014.
Quite and interesting museum to visit - I found the Buddha statue outside fascinating.
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