Contours of a Rich Manoeuvre, "Criss Cross"

“Contours of a Rich Manoeuvre” was initially commissioned for the re-opening of the newly retrofitted National Museum of Singapore in 2005. During its installation, the artwork was suspended directly above the entire length of the bridge linking two architectural halves of the new museum. In “Contours”, a row of eight red chandeliers swing as pendulums to mark out a choreography of lit patterns in air, time and space. These patterns coalesce into a dramatic mid-air calligraphy that alter and change synchronistically by the physics of differentiated time signatures. There are twelve “light drawings”, or movement signatures generated in light when the artwork is in full swing. While each chand...View all