There’s no reason to book a trip overseas to lose yourself in wanderlust and what not when you can just, y’know, get lost in Singapore. Literally. At National Gallery Singapore.
In collaboration with Rirkrit Tiravanija, the museum is hosting the internationally acclaimed artist’s largest bamboo maze installation at its rooftop garden for the next 10 months. If at first glance the 4m-high installation reminds you of construction scaffolding — which is inescapable when you’re living in an ever-changing concrete jungle like Singapore — you’re not entirely wrong.
Inspired by traditional hand-built bamboo scaffolding found across Asia, the maze took 20 men eight days to manually tie all 2,500 poles together with materials sourced from Chiang Mai to form the 15m-wide and 19m-long structure.
Oh, and when you finally make your way to the center of the maze, you’ll be greeted by a quaint, wooden Japanese teahouse, which will host various public programmes such as tea ceremonies by Japanese performance artist Mai Ueda.
untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness) by Rirkrit Tiravanija is on from now till Oct 28 at Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden, National Gallery Singapore. Free.
