Tan Pin Pin’s On a Clear Day... for Singapore Biennale (2025)

This installation recomposes Tan Pin Pin’s earlier work with previously unseen archival footage, placing their distinct temporalities in conversation. On one screen, Inuka, Singapore's first polar bear born in captivity, circles within an engineered Arctic habitat, highlighting the meeting of biological rhythm and constructed setting. On the other, 80km/h (2004) holds a single-take view from the passenger seat along the Pan Island Expressway, its steady 80km/h pace registering the city's regime of flow and efficiency. The projections are cast onto translucent screens held within a parallel frame; the frame fixes viewing distance, carries the overlap and serves as a viewing device that allows the bear's cyclical motion and the expressway's linear view to be perceived together as a composite. Rather than prescribe a singular reading, the work sets two systems in view and lets their timings meet, overlap and drift.

https://singaporebiennale.org/artwork/on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-forever

Ccurator Selene Yap @seleneysh
Production Support: Rachel Zuerte
AV: Mish’aal Syed Nasar
Edit & Grade: Lim Yen @sharkboyen
Audio Design: Yong Rongzhao @rongzhao
Projector design: Eddy and Ali
Fabrication: Spacelogic

Artist -----Tan Pin Pin >
Year -----2025
Format/Medium ----- Video and voile screen Video: synchronised double-channel HD projections (colour, four-channel sound), 39 minCollection of the artist
Venue ----- Lucky Plaza >#03-89/90
Singapore Biennale takes place from Oct 2025 to March 2026 


Installation view of Tan Pin Pin's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (2025), as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention. Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum.