Exhibition

The Cloth Remembers

aNERDgallery

15 January 2026 to 28 February 2026

Wed - Sat: 12 - 7PM | Sun - Tue/PH: By Appointment Only

Free admission

Synopsis

The Cloth Remembers highlights story cloths as powerful visual languages that preserve memory, identity, and resilience. From Hmong "flower cloths" depicting displacement, to Indonesian Batik Kompeni narrating colonial conflict and Chin weavings recalling everyday life, these textiles became archives of resistance, survival and hope. Artists will critically respond to these narratives, juxtaposing traditional textiles with contemporary practices, creating new dialogues on displacement, cultural identity and the collective power of storytelling through cloth.

Artists
Hafizah Jainal, Mee Cha, Sabine Bolk and Saul Chan Htoo Sang

Curator
Tony Sugiarta

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