The Contours of Home: From Palais to Pulau, An Exhibition on Belonging and Oddities

By Liani MK

June 2025 FOR ART'S SAKE
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Hilmi Johandi’s “Stagehands” (still), 2017. Image by the artist.
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Photos courtesy of Critical Craft CollectiveWHILE HOME REPRESENTS safety and comfort, it also acts as an intimate space shaped by unseen systems of discipline and boundaries. In it, each person is assigned unseen roles within a larger social order. Can home be liberating, or is it about learning the contours of one’s place?Singapore-based artist and educator Adeline Kueh mulls on the idea surrounding this sense and structure of home, as shaped by inherited roles embedded within our psyche.“Home is not...

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Liani MK

is an independent writer, journalist and artist whose works span areas of language, film, culture, indigeneity and migration in Southeast Asia.

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