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[it-IT]Record tools[it-IT] [it-IT]Displays[it-IT]	Dettagli Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection Numero oggettoS1980-0803-001-0 TitoloBuilding Site / Samsui women CreatoreLiu Kang DescrizioneFemale figures are working in a building site. They are known as "samsui woman" -woman who have emigated from China to South East Asia to work as labourers at construction site. Here they are typically clad in blue "samfoos".A work gang of Samsui women carrying rocks to fill up the base of a construction site. The Samsui women with their distinctive red headwears, coarse blue garments with rolled up sleeves and matching black pants and aprons that covered up their fronts, were a common sight at construction sites. They were a source of cheap but reliable labour force during colonial days. They had contributed significantly to the building of modern Singapore. It was their diligence and attitutde towards manual labour that prompted Liu Kang to highlight them in this figure composition, which was probably intended to be the artist's tribute to manual labour.“In Samsui Women, Liu Kang pays tribute to the female economic migrants who laboured as construction workers in the early years of modern Singapore. Originating from the province of Sansui, China, the Samsui woman’s uniform consisted of a red headgear and dark blue shirt and pants. The individual activities of the women labouring on a construction site are explicitly detailed in a realist manner, suggesting the artist’s intent to offer an account of their exacting vocation.” (Highlights of Southeast Asian Collections) Luogo di produzioneSingapore Data 1951 Categoria dell'oggettoPainting MaterialeOil on Canvas, Oil Paint, Paint, Canvas Dimensioni H: 212.5 cm L: 151 cm H: 223.9 cm L: 162.5 cm

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

Numero oggettoS1980-0803-001-0

TitoloBuilding Site / Samsui women

DescrizioneFemale figures are working in a building site. They are known as "samsui woman" -woman who have emigated from China to South East Asia to work as labourers at construction site. Here they are typically clad in blue "samfoos".A work gang of Samsui women carrying rocks to fill up the base of a construction site. The Samsui women with their distinctive red headwears, coarse blue garments with rolled up sleeves and matching black pants and aprons that covered up their fronts, were a common sight at construction sites. They were a source of cheap but reliable labour force during colonial days. They had contributed significantly to the building of modern Singapore. It was their diligence and attitutde towards manual labour that prompted Liu Kang to highlight them in this figure composition, which was probably intended to be the artist's tribute to manual labour.“In Samsui Women, Liu Kang pays tribute to the female economic migrants who laboured as construction workers in the early years of modern Singapore. Originating from the province of Sansui, China, the Samsui woman’s uniform consisted of a red headgear and dark blue shirt and pants. The individual activities of the women labouring on a construction site are explicitly detailed in a realist manner, suggesting the artist’s intent to offer an account of their exacting vocation.” (Highlights of Southeast Asian Collections)

Luogo di produzioneSingapore

Data 1951

Categoria dell'oggettoPainting

MaterialeOil on Canvas, Oil Paint, Paint, Canvas

Dimensioni

H: 212.5 cm
L: 151 cm
H: 223.9 cm
L: 162.5 cm

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