SINGAPORE - Three small, deformed sculptures by second generation Singapore artist Teo Eng Seng are easy to miss amid the visual clamour of the National Gallery Singapore's Awakenings exhibition - a showcase of more than 140 provocative works by Asian artists such as Japanese-American Yoko Ono and Singaporean Tang Da Wu.
Yet Teo's rarely seen cuboid works - made more than 30 years ago from plaster of Paris coated with silver paint and shoe polish - will likely weigh on the minds of those who take the time to view them.
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