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august 06, 2021 - Mori Art Museum

The latest "MAM Digital" Screening features works by Ho Tzu Nyen, renowned video artist representative of Singapore.

Over the years, the #moriartmuseum has presented many outstanding examples of film and video art, as part of major exhibitions, as well as in the more boutique MAM Screen program series by featuring single-channel video works, and at occasional special screening events. Mori Art Museum’s permanent collection also includes a number of works on film and video. In the Screenings part of “MAM Digital” will showcase screenings of a select works from the past MAM Screen screenings and the Museum’s collection in order, accompanied by detailed descriptions of the works, and artist comments, for added viewing enjoyment

Online Screening of #moriartmuseum Collection: #hotzunyen Reflections, 2007
Newton, 2009
Screening Period: Monday, August 2 - Sunday, October 31, 2021

In the fourth screening of works from the #moriartmuseum Collection, two works by #hotzunyen, Reflections (2007) and Newton (2009), both of which were acquired at the time of MAM Project 016: Ho Tzu Nyen (2012) will be exclusively showcased online for a limited time.

Based in Singapore, #hotzunyen (b. 1976) has been presenting his works all over the world, and has gained prominence at numerous international Biennales and international film festivals as a representative artist from Singapore. Ho, through works themed/based on history, folklores, stories, philosophy and so forth, has attempted to expose the fictitiousness and multilayered-ness in historical facts and reality. His modes of expression are centered on video, however, they range from installations, theater, participatory projects, improvisational collaborations with musicians and VR works to curation. The poetic and theatrical visual world of his works provides us with an opportunity to think about what reality is, while presenting the lessons and philosophies contained in history and stories.

In recent years, particularly in Japan, Ho Tzu Nyen’s works have caused a buzz for Hotel Aporia (2019) presented at the Aichi Triennale 2019, with the theme of potential connections among the Kyoto School Philosophers, Kamikaze SAC, Ozu Yasujiro, Yokoyama Ryuichi and others during the WWII, and Voice of Void (2021), a VR work themed with the Kyoto School Philosophers featured this year at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM).

Ho Tzu Nyen

His solo exhibitions to date include Art Space, Sydney (2011), #moriartmuseum, Tokyo (2012), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2017), Ming #contemporaryart Museum (McaM), Shanghai (2018), Kunstverein, Hamburg (2018), and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) (2021) among others.

The Group exhibitions he has participated to date include the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) (as representative of Singapore), Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2013), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2016), The Guggenheim, New York (2016), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017), Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2018), National Gallery, Singapore (2018), Gwangju Biennale (2018), Sharjah Biennial 14 (2019) and Aichi Triennale (2019).

Further information in the press release to download