An Imagined Past
14 Jan–3 Feb 2022
10am–10pm (Fri–Sun)
10am–7pm (Mon–Thu)
National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, Y-Lab
This interactive, virtual reality (VR) experience explores surrealism with the idea of illusion and reality, multiple interpretations, perspectives, and global phenomena. This VR experience will take visitors on a contemplative journey into the artworks from the Gallery’s collection, and offers the opportunity to experience them in novel and interactive ways.
As the experience heavily features VR headsets, the experience is not customisable and moving of certain body parts may be required to activate the content.
Yanni Chia is a Singapore-based artist and art technologist whose practice is grounded in the optics of reality. Chia’s work deals predominantly with paintings of the unknown, and is an attempt to capture experiences that are deeply rooted in being human, while also trying to make sense of the real through the surreal. As an artist, he has participated in a wide range of activities, including serving as a host for the Gallery’s Y-Lab for an event introducing NFTs to the general public.
