{"id":625414,"date":"2026-04-23T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:23:09","slug":"national-gallery-singapore-to-hold-its-first-ever-r18-exhibition-exploring-desire-in-southeast-asian-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625414\/","title":{"rendered":"National Gallery Singapore to hold its first-ever R18 exhibition exploring desire in Southeast Asian art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passion is Volcanic: Desire in Southeast Asian Art will be held at the Level 4 Gallery of National Gallery Singapore and is strictly for visitors aged 18 and above; valid identification will be required at entry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the exhibition cost S$5 for Singapore citizens and permanent residents, and S$8 for other nationalities. More information can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgallery.sg\/PassionisVolcanic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Patrick Flores, chief curator and project director of the exhibition, said: \u201cArt and desire have always been intertwined, yet conversations about pleasure and the body remain shielded in the region\u2019s public sphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassion is Volcanic: Desire in Southeast Asian Art engages with these themes in a considered and meaningful way and demonstrates how complex subjects can be approached with intellectual rigour and curatorial care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This exhibition invites us to look beyond familiar or simplified ideas of the erotic, exploring how desire is not fixed, but shaped by culture, history, and power. It opens up a more layered understanding of Southeast Asian art, one that centres lived, embodied experience as a vital force in artistic practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passion is Volcanic: Desire in Southeast Asian Art will be held at the Level 4 Gallery of National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[114748,449,458,459,64,63,460,134,89972],"class_list":["post-625414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-exhibition","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-national-gallery-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}