‘A for artist, ambivalence, animation, animism.’ In Ho Tzu Nyen: Time & the Tiger. Edited by Eugene Tan and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa. Singapore Art Museum publication, 2025.
“With incisive insight and bold explorations of form and media, Time & the Tiger offers the first comprehensive look at Ho Tzu Nyen’s groundbreaking practice—surveying his versatility as a visual artist, writer, performance and filmmaker, while examining the restless exchanges between Asia and the West alongside the grand designs, philosophical manoeuvres and fugitive logics of an interlinked, decolonising world.
An essential reckoning with the aesthetics, power, and technological systems that shape contemporary art, Time & the Tiger assembles critical reflections on two decades of Ho Tzu Nyen’s practice, as thinkers and allies unpack his acclaimed speculative imaginings in projects including One or Several Tigers, The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, Hotel Aporia and T for Time.”
Publication accompanying the artist’s mid-career exhibition at SAM, Art Sonje Center, Hessel Museum of Art, MUDAM Luxembourg and Hamburger Kunsthalle. Contributions by Ho Tzu Nyen, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Eugene Tan, Selene Yap, Kenneth Tay, Jang Un Kim, and Je Yun Moon, with May Adadol Ingawanij, Kathleen Ditzig, Hiroki Azuma, Lee Weng Choy, and Yoko Nose.