The Manila Art Blogger posts a review of Negotiating Home, History and Nation – Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991-2011 which is currently exhibiting at the Singapore Art Museum.

It will hit you, as you make your way around the Singapore Art Museum’s (SAM) galleries, that we share so much of the same sensibilities as our Southeast Asian neighbors. Now on its last week, Negotiating Home History and Nation- Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991-2011 presents a survey of works from within the region by 54 artists whose pieces belong to the museum’s permanent collection. While the overt references to Catholicism obviously originated from the Filipinos, the palette and images that majority of the artists adopted could have come from anywhere: the streets of Manila, KL, Jakarta, Hanoi, or Bangkok.

As the name suggests, Manila Art Blogger writes from a Philippine perspective. Check out the review here. Negotiating Home, History and Nation is a collection of recent works from 56 artists around Southeast Asia. The exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum finishes tomorrow, so it’s your last chance to catch it!