September 7 – November 18, 2019
541 Orchard Road, Hermès Liat Towers
The window installation will be on display at Hermès Liat Towers till November 2019.
Known for her handwoven tapestries that capture the beauty of nature and native landscapes, Kehayoglou was invited to create a unique installation that celebrates Singapore's identity as a Garden City.
Exploring the relationship humans have with nature and our surrounding landscape, Kehayoglou took inspiration from Singapore's landscape history – a city built alongside mangrove forests. She was captivated by the beautiful chaos of unedited nature found at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve: a greenery so lush that one loses track of time and place. It's like being in a dream.
With that, Kehayoglou transformed the windows at Hermès Liat Towers into a portal to another reality that gives us a different perspective of the nature around us. Kehayoglou spent ten years depicting fading lands and ecocides through her works, documenting decimation and speaking about lost lands in a bid to draw attention to the harm that we do to earth and in turn, ourselves. In Return to a loving dream, she explores a more magical aspect of this realm, finding beauty in the ordinary and bringing attention and awareness to the importance of nature
"We really don't know what can happen in the future. Planet earth has had cycles, we must learn how to live in harmony with ourselves and each other, and that will be reflected in the way we relate to the earth" – Alexandra Kehayoglou
Details on the work presented by ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU in Singapore
Photographs by Francisco Nocito
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