Images courtesy of Renee Tan.

Exhibition

Maladies of Rest

SMU Libraries

22 January 2025 to 23 February 2025

Wed-Sat, 12pm-7pm | Sun, 12pm-4pm | Closed Mon & Tue, and for Chinese New Year on 29 & 30 Jan

Free admission

Synopsis

An immersive multi-sensorial installation by emerging artist Renee Tan, Maladies of Rest explores the dreaming of a restful, care-centric world and what that might feel like. Working across paper-cutting, painting, wire sculpture, floristry, illustration, and textile crafts, the artist invites us to rest in magical scapes both fantastic and quotidian, that she made using the skills and materials of everyday crafts, including textiles, beads, yarn and paper. The exhibition takes on multiple identities in the heart of a ceaseless city: it is simultaneously a sketchbook of playful three-dimensional curiosities; a ‘living room’ that breathes the lingering presence of souls real and imagined; and a community gathering place of silence, sound, spectatorship, and participation. Designed to offer feelings of restfulness, Maladies of Rest educes the physical states of restlessness and unrest that we might carry, individually and collectively, and asks what of it.

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