Tucked away in the far end of the Esplanade's Jendela Hall is the 3rd exhibit for M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2010 Gallery. Htein Lin from Burma erected a 'prison' space with bricks and surgical gloves. The audiences were invited to take a stroll on the brick path. The effect was of an ironic zen garden with a creepy sense of prison justice. The rubber gloves sway ever so gently by the breeze of the air condition as though they are reaching and calling out!
The small squishy balloon arms are presented as fragile and tough; good and bad; guilty or not guilty; black and white; there were a lot of binary opposites in this work held together by the still golden scale in the middle
A scale hangs between a ceiling of black and a floor of white gloves
Outside the 'prison space' lie a trash bag filled with black 'hands'. A representative of the evil that still linger
What makes this piece of artwork so powerful is that the artist was previously sentenced to jail for seven years. As you walk and contemplate around the small confined space, you take away a sense of the thousands who lived this path in reality.
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