Bold exploration of ideas in After Utopia

A close-up view of Indonesian artist Yudi Sulistyos Mewujudkan Angan (Realizing Dreams) (2010-2011). Photos: Singapore Art Museum

In one darkened gallery of the Singapore Art Museum, unsuspecting visitors jump as they come face to face with the “dead” Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Chinese artist Shen Shaomin’s installation of the revolutionary communist leader, who has long split global opinion with all that he stands for, is eerily life-like.

In another room, where photography is not allowed, nude bodies, with all the right parts covered, appear on the walls. They are from Indonesian artists Agus Suwage and Davy Linggar’s Pinkswing Park, which shows an imagined Eden filled with representations of an Indonesian Adam and Eve.