First Generation

kids.JPG
Artist: 
Chong Fah Cheong
Patron: 
Far East Organization and Singapore Tourism Board
First Placed in Singapore: 
2000
Current Location: 
Singapore River, behind Fullerton Hotel
Label
Text of label: 

First Generation'
Chong Fah Cheong, sculptor
presented by Far East Organization
Singapore Tourism Board
December 28, 2000

entry: 

Very site specific, though in a way that opens an interesting contrast: the sculpture shows a behavior that would not be possible in this place, in so many ways. Hygiene, public order, etc... This implied transgression balances out the nostalgia in the work.

Chong Fah Cheong has shown himself interested in such questions before - he did a series of sculptures that could be read as ironic representations of Singapore's public benches.