National Museum of Singapore: The Toy Colony

Shophouse facades, a slinky arch and a red race car all sit at the scale of collectible toys, and the figures walking among them are what set that scale. The city reads as something you could pick up rather than somewhere you could stand.

Nothing is reproduced literally. The shophouse is recognisable from its proportions and its five foot way rather than from detail, which is what lets it stand next to a slinky without the joke collapsing.

The residents, one at a time. The film carries them past in a single sideways move, so a row of wide frames would be six pictures of the same street. The first three are the character renders that came with the project; the rest are closed in from the film.

The National Museum names the tunnel piece The Toy Colony and credits it to Lioncolony on its own exhibition page. The Straits Times names the maker, and Time Out describes the projection on the way in.