Chua Chye Teck, Marc Gloede, Hilmi Johandi, Wei Leng Tay
19 September 2025 - 4 January 2026
Esplanade Tunnel
The Shape of Passing Throughexplores the interconnected relationship between memory, space, and time. The multi-sensory exhibition located in the Esplanade tunnel utilises light, sound, and visual art to reflect how spatial and architectural elements shape our perception of temporality.
The exhibition offers an immersive environment that encourages visitors to reflect on how we experience time—not just as a straight line from past to future, but as something fluid and layered. Sounds, images, and light interact to evoke memories and emotions, creating a space where personal and collective memories can surface, overlap, and shift, reminding us that memory is not fixed, but always in motion.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928)
is a black-and-white animated short film that is considered a landmark in animation history. The film stars Mickey Mouse in his first sound appearance and helped to usher in the era of synchronized sound cartoons. Steamboat Willie remains an iconic piece of popular culture today.
Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.
Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.
In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.
Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.
As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.
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