The screening programme Ho Tzu Nyen: Investigating Histories, presented in conjunction with the artist’s M+ Facade commission Night Charades (2025), features five seminal moving image works by the Singaporean artist.

The programme opens with Ho’s very first film Utama – Every Name in History is I (2003), a critical and playful examination of the country’s legendary discovery and naming by Prince Utama. 4 x 4 – Episode 3: Tang Da Wu – The Most Radical Gesture (2005) restages artist Tang Da Wu’s audacious 1995 performance involving the then-president of Singapore, one year after the city-state effectively banned performance art. In EARTH (Black to Comm) (2009–2011) an observational camera eye draws attention to the act of seeing while navigating through a pile of human bodies in a post-apocalyptic setting. The Cloud of Unknowing (2011), created as part of the artist’s Singapore Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale, features eight characters living in separate public housing estates who have unexpected encounters with an amorphous cloud. The programme concludes with M+ Collections work The Nameless (2015), a found footage montage featuring Tony Leung as the sole character, portraying a mysterious triple agent during Cold War politics in Southeast Asia. Each of the films constitutes a milestone in the artist’s career, offering new modes of storytelling and audio-visual presentation, to examine human nature, knowledge production, and the construction of historical narratives.