tropics, a many (con)sequence locates Kent Chan’s film Seni as the exhibition’s locus, inquiring on the tropical imaginary that continues to frame aesthetics and artistic identities. Converging on cinematic languages and artistic histories that purposefully use these visual tropes of jungle and frontier, the tropics are studied in relation to state demands and colonial projections of the region, further elucidating its position as site, creation and fantasy. Blending film, text, sound and paintings from the museum’s collection, the artist inquires on notions of the rustic and the uncharted in his propositions on where art history and history intersect.