About time! French fashion house, Hermes has re-opened their store at Orchard Road this weekend. And if you’re as thrilled as we are, make sure you swing by the Hermès store for a sneak preview over the first weekend, which will feature snap-ready photobooths and art installations.
Not only will visitors get to marvel at this store that spans a whopping four storeys (did someone say shopping spree?), but they’ll also get to witness the debut of Singaporean artist Dawn Ng’s installation, “How To Disappear Into A Rainbow”, at the new Aloft at Hermès art space.
About “How To Disappear Into A Rainbow”
This poetic question is materialised in an installation by Singapore artist Dawn Ng, who transforms the new Aloft at Hermès into a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of shades. Drawing from an ethereal palette of daybreak hues, juxtapositions of pastel blocks and mirror panels create a floating world of colour.
Inspired by Yves Klein, this site specific work expands on his belief that colours are portals with the vertiginous quality of transporting its viewer from one realm to the next. Here, the repeated act of disappearing into colour and emerging through one’s reflection creates an alternating rhythm of horizons and sensorial space, ushering a person symbolically and psychologically from one place, time, or self, to another. Each portal is thus a moment, vertigo, and journey, filling the viewer with a naïve sense of joy and wonder.
To meander through the art is an act of discovery. The blended colour tones and mirroring effect of the portals echo a seamless perpetuity of losing oneself in the art in order to find him or herself over and over again.
How to Disappear into a Rainbow is core to Ng’s ongoing study of colour, emotion, nostalgia and identity; and a hopeful celebration of the infinite nature of self, space and possibility.