A curator is in a cage at the Singapore Art Museum. Granted the "cage" is delineated by green laser beams but it effectively prevents visitors from walking right through the "bars".
Titled Cage, this is the work of Chinese artist Li Hui, who suggests that people imagine boundaries where there are none, relying on faulty perception rather than material reality.
"Light is something we can't touch, but yet it can turn into something that can obstruct," says Li, 37.
"An amazing metaphor for how we live in society," adds Dr Susie Lingham, the art museum's director.
Cage is among interactive artworks by 11 artists from Singapore and the region that make up "Sensorium 360º: Contemporary Art and the Sensed World", now on at SAM until October 22.
The exhibition spans the fields of art, phenomenology, philosophy and cognitive psychology - of music, gastronomy and perfumery - to explore heady questions of how we experience the world and how these sensual experiences, in turn, shape who we are.
In dealing with aesthetics, artists and viewers tend to forget that the senses mediate in the receiving of these aesthetics - something the group show highlights. "These artworks will literally invade your senses," says Lingham.