In Pictures: Works of art on display at the Singapore Biennale

The fifth edition to the Singaporean Biennale has opened at the Singapore Art Museum to much fanfare. It features 58 works, including installations and video art, by a field of 63 artists from 19 different countries and territories in the region. Here's a look at some of the pieces on display.

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Oct 27, 2016, 08:24 AM

There Are Those Who Stay/There Are Those Who Go (2016) by Perception3. ST PHOTO: JAMIE KOH

Land Of Undefined Territory, 2014 to 2015, by Munem Wasif (Bangladesh). ST PHOTO: JAMIE KOH

Soap Blocked (2016) by Htein Lin (Myanmar). ST PHOTO: JAMIE KOH

Sugoroku - Anxiety Of Falling From History (2016) by Nobuaki Takekawa (Japan). ST PHOTO: JAMIE KOH

Dislocate by Vietnamese artist Bui Cong Khanh. ST PHOTO: TIFFANY GOH

Cooking The World by Indian artist Subodh Gupta. ST PHOTO: TIFFANY GOH

Melati Suryodarmo ink stamps her face at an installation and durational performance art named Behind The Light. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Guests at the opening of the Singapore Biennale walk past the glass mirror installation named Paracosmos by Harumi Yukutake. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Guests at the opening of Singapore Biennale view the exhibit named SONICreflection by Singapore's Zulkifle Mahmod. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam touring the exhibit, Noah's Garden II by Deng Guoyuan (left). ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Four works that will be at the Singapore biennale: Qiu Zhijie's One Has To Wander, Htein Lin's Soap Blocked, Nobuaki's Sugoroku and Perception3's installation. ST PHOTO: JAMIE KOH

Singaporean artist Lim Soo Ngee (in black, second from right) unwraps the bronze sculpture of a large left hand, titled Inscription of The Island, as Ms Susie Lingham, (right) creative director for the Biennale, looks on. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG

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