Samsui Women

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Artist: 
Liu Jilin
Patron: 
Urban Redevelopment Authority
First Placed in Singapore: 
1999
Current Location: 
URA Centre, facing the Maxwell Road Hawker Centre
Label
Text of label: 

Samsui Women

'From the Sansui Province, China, we emigrate young and frugal,

To the Lion City in Nanyang, we labour and struggle.

To seek employment and fortune for our families

We toil and sweat and witness the building

Of Singapore, our pride and future.'

The figures, carved from solid dusky-pink granite with rough textured finishing, reflects the hardship and preseverance of these tough women during the 1950's and 1960's.

Professor Liu Jilin, June 1999

Comments

worthy - and growing on me

Submitted by Peter Schoppert on Sat, 09/12/2009 - 14:16.

The sentiment here is worthy - the Samsui sculpture is out front of the Urban Development Authority - home of Singapore's urban planners. So a memory of the people who actually did the building during a key period of Singapore's growth, from the 1930s through the 1970s seems appropriate to this site. It's an elegant work, and it's settling into its location well.