Singaporean artist Robert Zhao’s flora and fauna photographs acquired by Tate collection in Britain

Robert Zhao’s A Guide To The Flora And Fauna Of The World was originally commissioned by the Singapore Biennale in 2013. PHOTOS: ROBERT ZHAO, COURTESY OF SHANGHART GALLERY
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SINGAPORE – Singaporean artist Robert Zhao’s A Guide To The Flora And Fauna Of The World has been acquired by the prestigious Tate collection in Britain.

Originally commissioned by the Singapore Biennale in 2013, Zhao’s work is an eccentric encyclopaedia cataloguing organisms changed by human intervention – from square apples in South Korea to the man-made flowerhorn cichlid (also known as the luohan).

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