Watch: Singapore’s newest experimental art-and-tech platform Padimai presents a talk between Olafur Eliasson, Vignesh Sundaresan (Metakovan) and Mark Rappolt
On the occasion of the opening of Padimai Art & Tech Studio, Singapore’s new experimental art-and-tech platform, ArtReview hosted a conversation between Olafur Eliasson; Padimai founder, collector and technologist Vignesh Sundaresan (also known as Metakovan); and ArtReview’s Mark Rappolt. Centred on Eliasson’s inaugural exhibition for the space, the discussion unfolds around questions that have long animated his practice: the conditions through which human experience is shaped and the kinds of participation and perception these elicit.
Padimai launched at Tanjong Pagar Distripark as an ‘artistic laboratory’ operating at the intersection of contemporary art, social practice and immersive technologies. Founded by Sundaresan, whose work with blockchain has shaped a broader interest in decentralised systems and artistic agency, Padimai proposes an alternative institutional model built around residencies, commissions and experimental, tech-based formats.
Eliasson’s Your view matter (2022/2025), commissioned by Sundaresan and produced with Acute Art, is a VR work that invites visitors to move through six interconnected virtual chambers inspired by the Platonic solids and a sphere, each of which is animated by moiré patterns that respond to movement. The work only unfolds through the viewer’s presence and each participant’s journey is recorded and archived via a blockchain-based system, embedding questions of data sovereignty and collective memory into the artwork’s structure.
The conversation considers how Your view matter sits squarely within Eliasson’s longer inquiry into how space, light and technology shape human experience. At the same time, the commission exemplifies Padimai’s ambition to function not just as a venue, but as a platform intent on testing how new technological frameworks might reconfigure the ecology of art, audiences and archives.
Olaur Eliasson’s Your view matter is on view at Padimai Art & Tech Studio, Singapore, through 31 March 2026
