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SAM Contemporaries returns for second edition with six large-scale installations

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(Front row from left) Artist Chu Hao Pei, artist Lee Pheng Guan, artist NEO_ARTEFACTS, artist Masuri Mazlan, artist Syahrul Anuar, (back row from left) curatorial assistant Angela Pinto, curator Joella Kiu, curatorial assistant for design Siobhan Tang, assistant curator Syaheedah Iskandar, curatorial assistant Seline Teo, curator for design Berny Tan, curatorial assistant Angelica Ong, and curator and manager (Collections) Teng Yen Hui in the space for How to Dream Worlds at Singapore Art Museum on July 18, 2025.

(Front row from left) Artists Chu Hao Pei, Lee Pheng Guan, NEO_ARTEFACTS, Masuri Mazlan, Syahrul Anuar, (back row from left) curators Angela Pinto, Joella Kiu, Siobhan Tang, Syaheedah Iskandar, Seline Teo, Berny Tan, Angelica Ong and Teng Yen Hui in the space for How To Dream Worlds at Singapore Art Museum.

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SINGAPORE – A recreation of a sandy excavation site with pop culture relics like Indiana Jones’ Holy Grail. An eerie home occupied by tubular latex and a shower cubicle periodically spraying red mist. And 40kg of dried lalang corralled into metal frames.

Singapore Art Museum’s (SAM) second edition of its biennial platform, SAM Contemporaries, returns on Aug 1 with six large-scale installations by emerging artists being shown under the title How To Dream Worlds, in Tanjong Pagar Distripark.

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