Faith Beauty Love Hope

Visitors can discover artworks through intimate insights shared by the contributors. The exhibition hopes to provide visitors and staff alike with an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate humanity’s strengths in this time of challenges and disruptions due to the global pandemic. It also reflects the voices of the many diverse groups of professionals and supporters who work at or with the museum, behind-the-scenes, to bring exhibitions and programmes to the public.

In view of the pandemic, the exhibition revolves around the four main themes of faith, beauty, love and hope, which embraces empathy, resilience, amazement, fear, joy, consolation, connection and many more states. Our team captured the essence of the themes through a colourful and emotional identity, inspired by cinema and stage performance.

Imagine how honored and excited we were to be invited by the ACM to select an object for the exhibition! After careful consideration we (GSM Singapore) chose this 17th Century jade mountain from China. Si Ying Ng, one of the designers on the gallery design, explains why this object resonates with our team:

To engage the visitors further, at the end of the experience, everyone is invited to reflect on the exhibition themes in connection with an ACM object. The testimonials are collected and subsequently displayed on a digital social wall, showcasing an endless-scrolling collection of different stories from anyone and everyone. Visitors can thus contribute to the many living stories of the museum. The ACM also invites the museum fans to share their story via a dedicated website where they can select an artifact.

Our team conceived and built the exhibition in record time while also carefully considering the circulation strategy that would enable visitors to enjoy a comfortable socially distant experience. Set design, graphic design and technical direction services were also provided to the museum. GSM Project and ACM’s partnership has resulted in multiple exhibitions over the years including most recently “Guo Pei: Chinese Art and Fashion” (2019 Best Design by GFFA) and “Raffles in Southeast Asia: Revisiting the Scholar and Statesman” presented in 2019, and “Angkor: Exploring Cambodia's Sacred City” in 2018.

GSM Project’s team is grateful to have designed the temporary exhibition Faith Beauty Love Hope - Our Stories Your ACM presented by the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore in Winter 2021, highlighting the favourites of the museum’s collection through the intimate stories of museum staff and stakeholders.