Entering into Singaporean artist Donna Ong’s ‘My Forest Has No Name’ is to enter into a world of fantasy and imagination.
Ong questions the discrepancy between representation and reality by tracing the way that the forest is portrayed from the period of Singapore’s colonisation through to the present day.
She does this through a variety of mediums: photographs, antique prints, ready-mades, and text alongside original work.
‘My Forest has No Name’ presents a survey of different perspectives on the forest, and the opinions of its ecological, political, social and economic significance.
The tropical forest is a source of inspiration and fascination for Ong, who pored over books such as The Jungle Book and The Faraway Tree as a child.