Synopsis

Matter Matters is a visual arts exhibition that reflects on the Asian Film Archive's role in Southeast Asia. It looks at the archive through an archaeological lens, bringing together various Southeast Asian artists to reconstruct and speculate on lost film cultures via the archive. Together, they present alternative voices and counter histories, celebrating the archive and its potential to uncover untold stories, missing pieces of history and culture and bring people together.
Elsa Wong, Artist
Đạt Vũ and Trương Quế Chi, Artist
The Observatory (Cheryl Ong, Dharma, and Yuen Chee Wai), Artists
DuckUnit (Rueangrith Suntisuk and Pornpan Arayaveerasid), Artists
Natalie Khoo, Curator

30 Jan 2026 to 31 Jan 2026

Free and ticketed programmes available

An intimate open-studio exhibition where seven artists transform clay, glass, ink, and charcoal into living stories — revealing the raw beauty of creation and the spirit that unites their craft.
Exhibition

Singapore Art Museum

12 Sep 2025 to 20 Jul 2026

Free during Singapore Art Week

The Living Room explores how museums collect, care for, and re-present performance-based practices, inviting you to think of performance traces as elements in a shifting space of encounter and exchange.

Alliance Fran�aise de Singapour x McNally School of Fine Arts LASALLE

17 Jan 2026 to 28 Jan 2026

Free admission

Temporary Obsessions speaks to the small departures that drift away from mastery and the perfected - brief infatuations, speculative detours, experiments that flirt with failure.
Exhibition

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

15 Jan 2026 to 5 Jul 2026

Free admission

Ikan Besar Skali by Hu Qiren reimagines historical whale displays, suspended at the Esplanade Concourse, its electroplated resin evokes wonder, climate histories, and decolonial perspectives.