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Singapore Art Week 2025: Sculptor Han Sai Por turns Padang into forest at Light To Night festival
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Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por, 81, at the rooftop of the National Gallery Singapore overlooking the Padang, where her 9m-high work will show as part of the Light To Night festival.
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SINGAPORE – A 9m-high installation on a patch of the Padang is the closest Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por has got to her dream project, as the 81-year-old has always wished she could make a landscape work the size of a football field.
The petite artist has spent her career punching – or rather hammering and chiselling – above her weight. The Cultural Medallion recipient’s rugged hands bear the marks of her practice, which involves whipping tough materials like stone and granite into hefty works of public art that can weigh on the mind.
