The Bubble We Call Home.
Commissioned by Mr Chong for Artist's Proof: Singapore at 60 (AP60).
The Bubble We Call Home was created for AP60, a landmark exhibition reflecting on sixty years of Singapore's nationhood through new commissions and works across generations.
Overview
A woman sits inside a translucent bubble. The space around her is soft, controlled, complete. Over six minutes the bubble slowly contracts, and she adjusts, makes herself smaller, accommodates. By the end she has curled into a foetal position with the bubble tight around her. Then it loops.
The work is a meditation on safety as confinement, drawn from the specific texture of growing up in Singapore, a city built for stability and success, where the infrastructure of security is so total it can begin to feel like a boundary. The bubble is womb, shelter, surveillance dome, and soft border all at once, and none of them resolve into the others.
Shown in the context of Singapore at sixty, the commission carries the intimacy of a single image-world into a broader exhibition about memory, nationhood, and the stories people build around shared space.
Installation
Details
- Commission
- Unique 1/1 commission by Mr Chong Huai Seng.
- Exhibition
- Artist's Proof: Singapore at 60 (AP60), presented by The Culture Story and produced by Family Office For Art.
- Venue
- Artspace @ Helutrans, Singapore.
- Dates
- 13 July to 17 August 2025.
- Format
- Single-channel 3D video, 6:01, looped.
- Context
- One of eleven new commissions among more than ninety works tracing Singapore's transformation from a young nation to a global city.
