Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026

In the video, a hand waters plants, someone cooks breakfast, and Amanda Heng reads the Heart Sutra. It loops for 29 minutes 40 seconds on two screens set low, the way a television sits at home, and you watch it from a terrace of wooden steps.

Bangkok studio SP/N stacked local larch in 10cm layers so the steps rise and fall across the Sale d'Armi, broad enough to sit or lie on. The design borrows from Singapore's void decks, so you can fly 10,000 km to sit the way you do downstairs. Nine black-and-white close-ups from 1990, Parts of My Body, hang below standing eye level.

One online review called it "the quietest pavilion in Venice" and warned it may not register with visitors worn out by hours of spectacle. Note that it's in Venice, not at SAM: Level 2 of the Arsenale, included in the Biennale ticket (€30, €16 under 26), 10am to 6pm, closed most Mondays, until 22 November.