Beyond Concrete Entity is a solo exhibition by local artist, Anthony Chua Say Hua. In this exhibition, Chua revisits the early history of the Chinese culture in Singapore; tracing back to the period where Singapore relied on the labors of immigrant Chinese to facilitate entrepot trade.

The paintings presented in this exhibition, symbolically refers to that aspiration of settling down in a foreign land in search of a better life exemplified by Singapore’s Chinese forefathers. The application of Chinese ink also refers to the Chinese root that serves as the main source of artistic inspiration for the artist’s expression which is steeped in its historical and technical source strive to strike out to locate and re-define his own depiction of his world.