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Tender Assemblies
Group Presentation
17 July–22 September 2026
Wearesuper @ Enabling Village
Singapore, Singapore
Curated by Shireen Marican
Images Courtesy of Jonathan Liu
Related Artworks
A Snake in the Grass (2026)
Group Presentation
17 July–22 September 2026
Wearesuper @ Enabling Village
Singapore, Singapore
Curated by Shireen Marican
Images Courtesy of Jonathan Liu
Related Artworks
A Snake in the Grass (2026)
Description
Exhibition Text by Shireen Marican
Tender Assemblies is an exhibition celebrating the act and idea of assembling and gathering objects, food, symbols and textures where personal preference meets deliberate form. Bringing together artists across disciplines, the exhibition explores the art of composition: the choices we make when we decide what enters the frame, what earns its place, and what we offer to the rest of the world to see, to feel, to share and to appreciate. To assemble is to edit, to reveal, to commit and in doing so, every artist lays something of themselves bare. Each artist brings a private vocabulary of colour and texture, ritual and memory, and taste and culture, accumulated over a lifetime. Through objects, symbols, gestures and form, these preferences are more than aesthetic. They are what shapes a person, marking the things that have moved and changed them. Together, these works form a larger conversation, revealing how personal the act of assembly is, and yet how universally human.
Excerpt from Artist Statement
In the year since my solo exhibition Welcome Back, Boo, I have found myself returning to textile hangings with a renewed interest to push its formal possibilities through colour and composition whilst also refining my making process. “A Snake in the Grass” expands upon the textile works from that exhibition, where strips of hand assembled textiles undulate, drape, and ruffle to create sculptural forms. Like before, these works explore a multitude of ideas, but are mainly rooted in my ongoing fascination with textiles as a way of preserving my personal history with fashion and dress, while also addressing more intangible concerns surrounding visibility.
At-large, for this series of works, I looked towards the idea of armour, drawing from my time training as in womenswear tailoring, where I approached dress as a form of social armour. The resulting works have an almost fortified quality, and present themselves almost like ceremonial adornment. Although far from being wearable, these wall-based works continue what I previously described as an absence of the body. Their compositions retain semblances of bodily proportions and bilateral symmetry of a body no longer present instead becoming a critique of the ways bodies (esp queer bodies) are so often treated as decorative surfaces and contested sites of politics.
Exhibition Text by Shireen Marican
Tender Assemblies is an exhibition celebrating the act and idea of assembling and gathering objects, food, symbols and textures where personal preference meets deliberate form. Bringing together artists across disciplines, the exhibition explores the art of composition: the choices we make when we decide what enters the frame, what earns its place, and what we offer to the rest of the world to see, to feel, to share and to appreciate. To assemble is to edit, to reveal, to commit and in doing so, every artist lays something of themselves bare. Each artist brings a private vocabulary of colour and texture, ritual and memory, and taste and culture, accumulated over a lifetime. Through objects, symbols, gestures and form, these preferences are more than aesthetic. They are what shapes a person, marking the things that have moved and changed them. Together, these works form a larger conversation, revealing how personal the act of assembly is, and yet how universally human.
Excerpt from Artist Statement
In the year since my solo exhibition Welcome Back, Boo, I have found myself returning to textile hangings with a renewed interest to push its formal possibilities through colour and composition whilst also refining my making process. “A Snake in the Grass” expands upon the textile works from that exhibition, where strips of hand assembled textiles undulate, drape, and ruffle to create sculptural forms. Like before, these works explore a multitude of ideas, but are mainly rooted in my ongoing fascination with textiles as a way of preserving my personal history with fashion and dress, while also addressing more intangible concerns surrounding visibility.
At-large, for this series of works, I looked towards the idea of armour, drawing from my time training as in womenswear tailoring, where I approached dress as a form of social armour. The resulting works have an almost fortified quality, and present themselves almost like ceremonial adornment. Although far from being wearable, these wall-based works continue what I previously described as an absence of the body. Their compositions retain semblances of bodily proportions and bilateral symmetry of a body no longer present instead becoming a critique of the ways bodies (esp queer bodies) are so often treated as decorative surfaces and contested sites of politics.