From December 2 onwards, citizens and visitors in Singapore will be able to visit National Gallery’s new long-term exhibition, Singapore Stories: Pathways and Detours in Art, at the revamped DBS Singapore Gallery.
Ahead of the opening, Connected to India caught up with Dr Adele Tan, Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore.
“I’ve been at the Gallery for 15 years now. I started working on the Southeast Asia Gallery, in fact, when I arrived. That took about five years in the preparation, and then more recently, two years ago, I took on the role of leading the revamp for the Singapore Gallery,” she says.
When asked what inspired the curation of the new exhibition, she says: “I wanted first and foremost, I think, to bring some life and levity to the exhibition. I think being the second act and having opened the or had that exhibition open for close to a decade, I felt that Singaporeans are now confident enough to receive other ways of telling our stories.”
Tan, who received her PhD in art history from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, started as the Curator at the Gallery in January 2010. Her stint continued till September 2018, before she was promoted to her current post.
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