Women artists remake science-fiction themes and ideas in ArtScience Museum’s new show

Artist Etsuko Ichihara's the Namahage (left) and Hinterland by South Korean collective PACK. ST PHOTOS: NG SOR LUAN
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SINGAPORE – What do a Peranakan funerary gate, a wayang kulit puppet and pontianaks have to do with science fiction? 

Quite a lot, it seems, in New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed, which opens at ArtScience Museum on Saturday and runs till March 3.

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