The film program for ART SG 2026, Would You Tell Me a Story Until I Fall Asleep? curated by X Zhu-Nowell, invites the spectator into an engagement with the image, using the darkness of the cinema as a site of contemplation. In this black box, the mind becomes its own quiet chamber — like a camera obscura — where images can arrive differently: slower, more porous, attentive. Here, the intention is to explore the essential feature of the image: its ability to affect the viewer not through rhetoric, but through singular, subjective encounters.
These films confront us with the nature of the image as something tied inextricably to the past — that-has-been. The image becomes a kind of spectrum, a quiet but insistent return of what is no longer with us. You are invited to rest in this darkened chamber. Sleep is employed not as a retreat but as a method: an archive that allows memory and sensation to drift upward. The screening program includes works by Samson Young, Lêna Bùi, Lo Lai Lai Natalie, Marcel Odenbach, and more.
22 – 25 January
11am – 1:30pm
2:30pm – 4pm
24 January
11am – 1:30pm
26 Jan – 1 February
11am – 1:30pm
ArtScience Museum
ArtScience Cinema (L4)
6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
Just a 3-minute walk from the fair, ArtScience Museum is located directly outside The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. Exit the fair via L1, walk through The Shoppes towards the waterfront, following the signage to ArtScience Museum.
