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Ikkan Art Gallery is pleased to present "NUSANTARA: the seas will sing and the wind will carry us", a multimedia installation by Sherman Ong, at the Southeast Asia Forum as part of Art Stage 2016. An allegorical work based on archipelagic Southeast Asia’s maritime history and patterns of migration both past and present, Ong looks at how these parameters have shaped the nature of diasporic identities in the region.

Central in the work is an anthology of short films featuring documentary-style first-person monologues and conversational dialogues. The films relay lives caught between …