Eugene Koh You Qin

Singapore is just a modernised country, 2013

Installation, newspaper

The deepest mark, left on me after the trip was by an old Japanese man. He who sat beside me throughout the trip to Kyoto, was a man of culture.

A tranquil aura surrounds him, as he gets absorbed reading his paper, occasionally lifting his right arm, reaching out to his beer that stood on the window sill of the carriage.

What his arms led to was the newspaper. It caught my attention of how it was folded up in a manner that took minimal space, but still readable. It was not the folds that amazed me, but rather the hypothesized cause of it.

This work attempts to show my feelings of how vulgar I felt when I was in Japan, how a vision was pictured for a better Singapore.