[Singapore Biennale '11] You’re NOT welcome to the Hotel Munber
Singapore Biennale 2011: Open House
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The Fujiwara saga continues.
Simon Fujiwara’s installation at the Biennale, Welcome to the Hotel Munber, has been getting quite a bit of press lately, primarily for having been censored by the Singapore Art Museum with regards to certain pornographic gay elements. Remember when I said that the piece was still on view at the SAM ?
Well, I lied.
It’s not.
I was just there, and the display has been shut down (below), at least temporarily. Someone I spoke to at the front counter said that it’d been cordoned off two days ago, and its eventual fate is still anyone’s guess.
Sorry, my bad.
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