As many have pointed out, Valentine Willie Fine Art’s Singapore survey show New Strange Faces is a hit-and-miss show. But such is the urgency of its topic that, compared to the two previous annual shows, IMHO, it's the most important of the series to date. Some might think it’s ironic that such a show is being presented in a private gallery by a Malaysian gallerist, but I don’t think so. The distance it affords (in a non-state museum, encouraged by a non-Singaporean) is precisely why we have it. A slightly condensed version of my write-up appeared in the papers today, with some of the artists I wanted to talk about taken out due to space constraints. Here’s the original one.

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