This exhibition in the basement of the Singapore National Museum is a truly stunning installation of 99 replica foxes by Cai Guo-Qiang. It supposedly represents the national psychological ghosts of the Berlin wall, with the circular motion of the foxes - running in a repeated circle towards a glass barrier - representing the human tendency to repeat mistakes. I like this work as metaphor of insanity, and I love the impact you get walking around it, but as someone who used to live in ex-DDR I find it hard to relate the running wolves to the ossie-wessie divide, which I do believe exists but see more as a systemic issue rather than psycho-social phenomenon. Of course there are personal traumas associated with the Berlin wall and it has left differing impacts on each side of the country (financial difficulties, and coping with change, regret and resentments) but I am not sure how these impacts can be construed as repeated human errors. Perhaps there are effects I am overlooking?
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