Light to Night Festival returns this year from 19th January to 8th February 2024. Themed ‘Reimagine’ for 2024 edition, this district-wide visual arts festival looks to inspire audiences to forge deeper connections with art in new and engaging ways. The festival features art installations, light projections on building facade, exhibitions, live performances and various other programmes.
The parts I’m looking forward to see every year are only the art installations and light projections. After finishing my work for the day just now, I met up with a friend of mine and had dinner before going to explore the displays/installations. First, we went to check out the light projections (titled ‘Temple of Love’ and ‘Teo Eng Seng: Living the Life’) on the front facade of National Gallery Building. There is also an installation (named ‘Wings of Change’) over there right opposite the building at the Padang. It is said to resemble seeds but they look like ‘siham’ (cockles) to me…hehe…
After that, we walked over to The Arts House (besides National Gallery) for another light projection (titled ‘Winter Sonata, Summer Mookata’). Here, there is a small art installation titled ‘8-bit Word Cloud’. Next, we moved on to the adjacent Asian Civilizations Museum (just visited this museum two weeks ago) to see a light projection on its sideway (titled ‘Passage’) and saw another light installation named ‘Party Pavilion’.
Following that, we proceed to the Victoria Theatre building to see the last light projection (titled ‘Embroidered Landscapes’). This light projection is the most mesmerizing out of all that we have seen this evening. There is also another art installation over there called the ‘Wayang Spaceship’. That’s it. A quick walkaround the area to check out all these in less than an hour.
As it is weekday today, there isn’t too many people during our visit to the festival area (Singapore Civic District) just now. There was a time of rain before I finished work but luckily it stopped right after.