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Angin Cloud imagines the rural industrialisation of a hill side from Vietnam’s Central Highlands. Pairing Jrai wood sculptures and suspended pillars that recall farming structures for growing pepper vine, the installation references ‘angin’, a Jrai concept for the dynamic potential for change found in water and air.
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When: 17 Jan 2024–30 Nov 2025 - Suitable For: Adults, Families, Visitors 65 and above, Visitors with accessibility needs, Students and Educators
- Where: Padang Atrium
Angin Cloud manifests the complex dynamism of rural industrialisation through a Jrai lens.
At National Gallery Singapore, Angin Cloud comprises of pillars – like trellises for peppercorn vines in the plantations in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, an assemblage of Jrai wood sculptures and hammocks to recline in.
Angin Cloud imagines the rural industrialisation of a hillside from Vietnam’s Central Highlands. “Angin,” a Jrai concept, refers to the dynamic potential for change found in the natural elements of water and air. In Vietnamese, "bốc hơi” refers to evaporation and implies a quick disappearance. Art Labor has described the transformation of the Central Highlands as the “bốc hơi” (evaporation) of ancient jungles. Angin Cloud, through a metaphoric and native Jrai lens, alludes to the complex dynamics of modernization that have brought capital and development to a region but also reshaped its land and people.
This is a joint commission by OUTBOUND and Light to Night 2025. Inaugurated in 2018, OUTBOUND is an initiative that reimagines transitional spaces and key entrances at the Gallery through a series of unique artwork commissions, developed in collaboration with leading artists from around the world, to provoke critical reflection, curiosity, and playfulness.
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To celebrate the presentation of Art Labor’s most ambitious art installation to date, Angin Cloud, join us for special journey by the artists’ collaborators, musicians from the Jrai community. Led by the esteemed Jrai musician Rcham Teh, the musicians will be playing traditional wooden Jrai wooden instruments, similar to the Jrai sculptures that have been included in Angin Cloud’s year-long installation. Following the performance, Art Labor and the artists will converse with curator Kathleen Ditzig, about the making of Angin Cloud, its future life in Vietnam and the legacies of Jrai sculpture that the installation embodies.
15 Nov 2025, 3pm
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