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ICYMI: Kaws:Holiday Singapore Is Back In Business

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ICYMI: Kaws:Holiday Singapore Is Back In Business

The highly anticipated showcase will resume after the court lifted its earlier order to stop the event.

by Toh Wen Li  /   November 16, 2021
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Kaws:Holiday Singapore is now open to the public. Credit: @yk

The Kaws:Holiday exhibition at The Float @ Marina Bay will now resume, after the court lifted an earlier order to stop the exhibition. The interim injunction was lifted on Monday, November 15 in the State Courts by District Judge Kow Keng Siong.

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The 42m-long inflatable work by popular American artist Kaws – slated to go on display from November 13 to November 21 – had been temporarily closed to the public, after the event’s organiser, the Hong-Kong based creative studio AllRightsReserved (ARR), was served an interim injunction.

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This happened as the non-profit organisation The Ryan Foundation (TRF) sued ARR, citing breach of intellectual property rights and breach of confidence. The foundation had been in talks with ARR in 2019 to make the exhibition happen in Singapore, but the negotiations eventually fell apart.

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SK Lam (left), founder of creative agency AllRightsReserved Limited which organised Kaws:Holiday Singapore with American artist Kaws (right) at The Float @ Marina Bay with the installation in the background.

The interim injunction had ordered that the exhibition stop taking place. It also ordered that the sale and distribution of relevant merchandise relating to the exhibition, as well as all advertising and publicity, be stopped.

Representing TRF on Monday were its founder Ryan Su, as well as Giam Zhen Kai, both of OC Queen Street law firm. ARR was represented by Tan Tee Jim, Christopher James de Souza, Basil Lee and Valen Lim of Lee & Lee. Tan, a senior counsel, told The Straits Times that his clients are happy to be able to exhibit the well-known sculpture in Singapore.

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The foundation’s director Adrian Chan said in a statement after Monday’s hearing: “The interim injunction is a temporary one and we are happy that the public gets to enjoy the artwork.”

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The latest turn of events comes a day after Su started contempt of court proceedings in the High Court against ARR and a string of other parties. He had filed the application on Sunday evening, on the grounds that they had breached the earlier order to stop the exhibition and its related publicity events.

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In an Instagram post, Kaws a.k.a. Brian Donnelly who was in town to reveal his installation posted: “When our exhibition at ‘The Float @ Marina Bay’ was forced to shut its doors, we felt wronged and frustrated, as the gate to these valuable exchanges had been shut. This is not what our company, or the world, would like to see.”

Ahead, take a peek at some of the images of the installation taken by Singapore’s popular photographers from the event, which opens daily from 2pm to 9pm.


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