With its diverse knowledge and experience in Asia and beyond, Future Perfect provides promotion and representation for contemporary artists, as well as research and advice for collectors, institutions, and curators. The gallery works with an international roster of contemporary artists, including Christian Thompson, Pratchaya Phinthong, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Ho Tzu Nyen. Under gallery directors Jasper Knight, Nina Miall and David Teh, Future Perfect is committed to advancing the practices of the most dynamic and innovative contemporary artists working across the range of traditional and non-traditional media.
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Future Perfect is proud to present ‘SEA STATE 3: inversion’, the latest installment of Charles Lim’s celebrated SEA STATE series. The exhibition throws an international spotlight on one of this country’s leading artistic innovators. Far from the wilderness we might imagine there, the artist finds a dynamic and ever-changing environment, constantly reshaped by natural and human forces.
Charles Lim, SEA STATE: drift (stay still or move), 2012
Charles Lim, SEA STATE: drift (rope sketch), 2012
Charles Lim, SEA STATE 2: as evil disappears, 2012
Charles Lim, SEA STATE 3: inversion (study), 2013
‘SEA STATE 3: inversion’ features new sculptural installation pieces based on artist’s intensive research into Singapore’s peculiar maritime environment. Far from the wilderness we imagine beneath the waves, the artist finds a dynamic and ever-changing world, constantly reshaped by natural and human forces. With his new body of work Lim probes this unseen landscape where the nation’s economic fortune is secured, revealing the principle of inversion at the heart of the developmental state. Modern Singapore is a land of inversions. Its transformation from swampy entrepôt to post-modern metropolis has seen hills become plains and sea become land, while transport and commerce reach underground and gardens climb skyward.
While Singapore is heavily dependent on the maritime economy, the sea has receded from the public imagination, as the island has grown by some 30% since independence. Lim explores the unseen horizons of this expansion, performing an expert tracing of the nation’s political and psychological contours. ‘SEA STATE 3: inversion’ charts the limits of our rational understanding of the world, juxtaposing the meticulous detail of the geographer with the abstract, ‘automatic’ drawings of nature itself.
