Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s first S-E Asia solo show at SAM makes nature visible in new ways

In Symbiotic Seeing (2020), the ceiling is made to look like a layer of swirling, liquid skin with lasers and fog. ST PHOTO: HENG YI-HSIN
Olafur Eliasson bathed in yellow light from his Yellow Corridor (1993). ST PHOTO: HENG YI-HSIN
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SINGAPORE – Upon entering the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, visitors will find themselves plunged into a sinister yellow light.

They can be forgiven for wanting to escape the unflattering glow in the long, claustrophobic corridor. Bathed in it, everyone and everything is desaturated into looking yellow and grey, the full spectrum of colours returning only towards the back of SAM, where Epigram Coffee Bookshop is located.

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