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Exhibition

From Palais to Pulau: Rethinking ‘home’ and ‘oddities’

Critical Craft Collective

14 January 2025 to 21 January 2025

2-8pm daily

Free admission

Synopsis

The Critical Craft Collective’s From Palais to Pulau reinterprets Mrs. Beeton’s domestic guide through a Southeast Asian perspective, uncovering narratives of invisible labour, gender roles, and colonial legacies. By engaging with embodied knowledge and regional practices, the project bridges historical and cultural frameworks, offering a nuanced exploration of domesticity. Using "temperature" as a metaphor, it examines the emotional and physical dimensions of labor, care, and resilience. This reinterpretation reframes domestic spaces as sites of complex interactions between history, power, and culture, highlighting how these forces shape everyday life. Through this lens, From Palais to Pulau reveals the enduring relevance of these themes, urging viewers to critically engage with their own cultural contexts. The project serves as both a critique and a celebration, illuminating Southeast Asian practices while challenging conventional understandings of domestic roles and their cultural significance.

Public programmes:

14 January, 2025
4:00–8:00pm: Tea party (Vernissage), Opening reception
7:00–8:00pm: Curators’/Artist tour
19 January, 2025
3:00–4:00pm: Artist tour
5:30–7:00pm: Conversations on ‘kueh’ with Christopher Tan, Author of The Way of Kueh
21 January, 2025
4:00–5:00pm: Artist tour
5:30–7:00pm: Conversations over Nasi Ulam with Suria Insyirah of Dapur Cahaya

Participating artists/curators:

Adeline Kueh, Curator & Artist
Divaagar, Artist
Hazel Lim, Curator & Artist
Ian Woo, Artist
Shubigi Rao, Artist
Tan Wyn Lyn, Artist
Zarina Muhd, Artist
Andrea Danker, Artist
Daniel Chong, Artist
Joanne Lim, Artist
Susanna Tan, Artist
Lim Zeharn and Lim Zeherng, Artists
Michelle Ho, Writer
Chay Weiqin, Writer

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