This month saw the opening of the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize at the Singapore Art Museum, showcasing the 15 finalists selected from over 130 nominations from 24 countries in the region. Jerome was at the opening of the exhibition to preview this year’s best works.

The work above is called the Last Cannibal Supper by Greg Samu, which struck Jerome the most:

The most provocative work was for me Greg Semu’s ‘The Last Cannibal Supper’, a series of 9 photographers which features Semu himself at the centre of the work which explores the religious colonisation of the Kanak people of Noumea at a symbolic last supper in which the people leave their traditional and cannibal ways to adopt the ways of their colonial masters. Central to the work is the re-enactment of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper using local actors and with a local setting with palm branches, flax walls, and shells. Semu grew up in a religiously indoctrinated family, and recalls everyday of his childhood looking at a wall size rug of Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece hanging above the fireplace in the family home.

Read the rest of Jerome’s post here. The APB Signature Arts Prize Finalists Exhibition is on at the Singapore Art Museum until 4 March 2012. For more information about the prize, click here.