Light to Night Singapore 2026 runs from 9 to 31 Jan 2026. Enjoy free entry to selected exhibitions on every Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during the festival.

She Isn’t Here (Gallery Gigs x Resonates With Residency - Dapheny Chen)
  • When:
    24 Jan and 25 Jan
  • Time:
    8:30pm-9:15pm and 7:15pm-8pm
  • Where:

    National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, Padang Atrium

In the culminating chapter of She Isn't Here, this evolving choreographic project traces how the female body in Southeast Asia is shaped, disciplined and imagined. Rooted in San Minn’s once-censored painting Age of Full Bloom (1979), the work begins by asking what it means for beauty to function as both a form of power and a veil of erasure. The painting’s serene composure, born from an era of political censorship, becomes an entry point into understanding how women’s bodies are often rendered symbolic: celebrated for grace and restraint, yet silenced beneath the surface.This final showing turns toward the gestures, expectations and labour that live behind such images.

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Dapheny Chen
Dapheny Chen

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Suhaili Safari
Suhaili Safari

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Ang Hui Ling
Ang Hui Ling

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Evangeline Koo
Evangeline Koo

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Natasha Koo
Natasha Koo

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Jootz See
Jootz See

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Cheah Yan Ni
Cheah Yan Ni

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