345:(2011-2013) alongside newer film, sculpture, and works on paper developed by Tan. Guided by notions of aesthetic cannibalism, the installation examines the contingent rules and contexts of the colonial museum in Malaya as it came to be framed in the 19th century, alongside its continuations in the postcolonial present.
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