︎Year 4
Chelsea Sia
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An Elegy to the Grave
Singapore
In
Singapore, a city that unceasingly pushes itself forward and upward, we find
that the last vestiges of death – that of which is felt and largely ungoverned
– are slowly being subsumed into state heritage. Overlaying this mechanism of
erasure as a corollary of progress onto the multicultural Singapore narrative,
an alternative importance of the death-scape is argued for. With urban life,
multi-religiosity, and the local death culture in the project’s purview, it
speculates an intersection between the realms of urban life and death – a
practice of space that insists on seeing an authenticity about death, and imagines
possibilities of a balance between the quotidian and a state-constructed order.
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