(12) Made Wianta (1949) Lives and Works in Bali - Indonesia . . . TREASURE ISLAND (2012) Raw buffalo leather, mirrors and nails Various dimensions Collection of the artist . . . TREASURE ISLAND delves into overlooked chapters of Indonesia's colonial past, threading together geographies as disparate as the tiny spice island of Rhun in Maluku, Indonesia and the metropolis of Manhattan in New York. in the 1667 TreTy of Breda, the Netherlands relinquished their claims to New York (then known as New Amsterdam), in exchange for control of Rhun in the Indonesian archipelago, which was home to precious nutmeg trees, then regarded as the linchpin for Dutch control of the highly profitable spice trade. Three and a half centuries later, the fortunes of these island outposts of empire have diverged dramatically, and Rhun has all but faded from global awareness. TREASURE ISLAND is inspired by a desire to recover these submerged historical relationship: the orange-gold surfaces of these skin-maps, embedded with glittering mirrors and nails, are redolent of the colour of the spices, yet evoke an arid and barren landscape, stripped of it's treasures. T S L . . . #SingaporeBienale2016 #SingaporeArtMuseum #SAM #ImadeforSAM #SofiaDewiTravelDiary #designerlife #visitsingapore #island #singaporetrip2017 #leica #leicalens . . Caption by Singapore Bienale 2016 Catalogue (at Singapore Art Museum)