In Our Best Interests
Singapore 21.01.21 - 31.03.21
In Our Best Interests
In Our Best Interests: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities during a Cold War presents contemporary art works and archival material that nuance Afro-Asian legacies that grew out of the Cold War. Focusing on Southeast Asia as a geopoetic imagination alongside a global post-WWII anti-colonial resistance to racism, the exhibition traces a historical line between early regional imaginations such as Maphilindo to contemporary appropriations of Afro-Asian histories, such as China’s development of cultural infrastructure in Senegal.
In parallel with a series of webinars that map out the histories of Afro-Southeast Asia affinities, In Our Best Interests questions what a global solidarity can mean, thus, bringing into relief the geopolitical stakes of working for ‘our’ best interests in a failed “post-racial” contemporary and in the face of the global pandemic, COVID-19.
Featured Artist
Vuth Lyno
Vuth Lyno is an artist, curator, and educator interested in space, cultural history, and knowledge production. His artworks often engage with micro and overlooked histories, notions of community, place-making, and the production of social relations.
He works across various media, including photography, video, sculpture, light, and sound. He often constructs architectural bodies as situations for interaction.
He introduces human stories and knowledge within these installations by drawing on various materials such as original interviews, artefacts, and newly made objects.
Artist
The exhibition presents nine artists from Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Cambodia.
