Excelsior Shopping Centre may look like a rundown shopping complex from the outside, with nothing but camera stores, massage parlours and music centres. But art lovers should pay attention. Hidden at the basement is a small shopfront unit home to I_s_l_a_n_d_s, an experimental platform that encourages artists to reconsider the boundaries of their practise by testing novel concepts and alternative means of exhibition-making.
The space was founded in November 2017 and originally occupied eight showcase windows situated in the third-floor passageway between Peninsula and Excelsior Shopping Centres, but has since moved into its current space in April 2020. It has hosted small-scale exhibitions exploring topics you normally wouldn't see in our major art institutions, like the alternate dimensions and the occult.
