Palpable Affinities is an exhibition of casual yet spirited installations that explore the curious lives of objects. It presents new works of art co-created by artists Leow Wei Li and Celeste Tan that speculate about imagined environments where materials, no longer burdened by their assigned functions, can develop new properties and live different lives as sentient matter. Palpable Affinities draws from three points of departure: the possibility for a new language to arise from the convergence of art and design; the potential of materials previously marked as surplus or waste - in a state of dispossession - to perform with new agency and life as sentient objects; and object biography - an archaeological approach used to trace the story and history of an artefact - as a method of nurturing the narratives of the artworks while they assume different identities, personalities and social relationships.

Image courtesy of Alger Law.

Artists: Leow Wei Li, Celeste Tan
Curators: Rachel Tan