"This show is about the realities of Singaporean life. Or rather it is about one artist’s questioning of why those realities exist. SKL0/ Sam Lo is an artist obsessed with the way the city’s inhabitants interact with the urban landscape, and how their lives are directed by social expectations and norms, government directive and collective habit. SKL0 questions what it means to be a citizen, to live in an ostensibly free state in which behaviours are observed by security cameras and in which crossing the road at the ‘correct’ time is a matter of obligation. SKL0 observes these everyday happenings and then, to paraphrase Paul Klee, takes them for a walk." - Viv Lawes

Greetings from Singapore was the artist's second solo exhibition, presented by One East Asia in 2017 alongside the launch of a book of the same name. The exhibition brought together photographic documentation of street interventions made under the moniker SKL0's Champion Colloquial era, transforming works that had originally existed temporarily within Singapore's urban environment into a permanent archive.

The project emerged from an interest in the everyday realities of Singaporean life and the systems that shape them. The interventions had begun as small interruptions to the city's ordered and practical routines: stickers placed on pedestrian crossings, bins, CCTV cameras and other elements of the urban landscape. Their scale was deliberately modest, but their placement created moments of recognition, humour and disruption within an environment that often prioritises efficiency, order and uniformity.

Through the exhibition, these interventions were removed from their original contexts and re-presented as photographic records. This act of documentation became significant in itself. The works were no longer only temporary gestures within the city, but evidence of a particular relationship between the individual and the urban environment: one in which the public landscape could be observed, questioned and subtly altered.

The exhibition also marked a shift in the way the work could be understood. What began as a series of playful interventions became a way of examining the conditions of everyday life in Singapore. The works asked why the city looked and behaved as it did, what kinds of actions were considered acceptable within public space, and how individuals navigate the expectations embedded within their surroundings.

In this sense, Greetings from Singapore functioned simultaneously as exhibition, archive and reflection. It preserved a body of ephemeral work while offering a broader portrait of a city and its inhabitants. The project remains an important point within the development of the practice: a moment where the act of intervening in the urban landscape began to develop into a sustained interest in the relationship between public space, social behaviour, authority and the ways in which a society sees itself.