Curator Tour - Grafting Together / Apart

Join our curators for an intimate exploration of the exhibition’s featured artworks. These guided tours offer unique insights into the artistic vision, creative processes, and stories behind each piece.

Dates and time:

30 November 2025, Sunday, 4PM-4:30PM
14 December 2025, Sunday, 2PM-2:30PM
2O December 2025, Saturday, 1PM-1:30PM
10 January 2026, Saturday, 2pm-2:30PM

Location:

Botanical Art Gallery, Level 2, Activity Room, Gallop Extension, Singapore Botanic Gardens

General notes:

• Photographs may be taken during the tour as part of our documentation. By attending this programme, you consent to being photographed or filmed.
• Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the programme begins. Each tour is approximately 30 minutes.
• While younger participants are welcome, children must be accompanied by a supervising adult, who should also register for the programme.
• This is a rain-or-shine event. The tour will take place within a sheltered location.
  

About the curators:

Grafting Together / Apart is jointly curated by four students from the inaugural cohort of the BA (Hons) in Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and World programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.

Emil Chew

Emil Chew is an artist and emerging curator with a passion for community outreach and education. Trained in fine arts, he was awarded the prestigious UOB Painting of the Year—Most Promising Artist of the Year in 2020. Since then, Emil has established himself as an artist-educator and leads an art studio dedicated to nurturing creativity and confidence in young learners. Guided by care and reflection, his practice explores how art can spark meaningful connections, serving as a bridge toward a more empathetic and inclusive society.

Farahin Rahim

Farahin Rahim is an aspiring curator with a decade of work experience in the maritime sector. She is interested in art that experiments with non-traditional media, and engages with its surroundings. She is also drawn to artistic themes that evoke the sublime, the ineffable, and the unsayable. Farahin is committed to making art accessible to a diverse public and curating exhibitions that highlight stories of the underrepresented and the marginalised.

Radin Surina

Radin Surina works across performance, writing, and curatorial practice. Trained in music, fashion, and visual communication, she has led heritage exhibition projects and designed visual narratives for institutional collections. Her practice creates reflective spaces recovering forgotten histories and tracing social threads linking creative expression to lived experience. Her interest lies in archival storytelling and exploring the cosmos of persona in art and performance within a multidimensional context.

Sarah Zheng

Sarah Zheng is an aspiring curator and art historian based in Singapore. With an extensive background in architectural design, her approach to curating is keenly attuned to spatial and environmental relations. Sarah is particularly intrigued by how accessible art can transform public spaces, imbuing the everyday with agency and poetry. Her curatorial work seeks to highlight diverse artistic practices and cultivate serendipitous encounters with art that resonates and sparks conversation within communities.

About Grafting Together / Apart exhibition:

Presented at the Singapore Botanic Gardens—a historic site of botanical exchange and experimentation—Grafting Together / Apart draws on the act of grafting, where different plants are joined to grow as one, as a fertile metaphor for how cultures and identities are shaped through shared histories and encounters.

Featuring works by recent BA ( Hons) and MA Fine Arts graduates of LASALLE College of the Arts-Cavin Lim, Hendra Selamat, Liz Yap, and Tristan Lim–the exhibition explores what happens when different cultures, memories, and traditions come into contact with each other. It attends to everyday moments of encounter and exchange, where differences are negotiated and grafted into fresh forms. Grafting is rarely seamless; it entails friction and a degree of risk.

What emerges may be unevenly joined, fragile, even resistant at first—yet it is through this tension, amidst difference that new forms begin to take root. The exhibition reflects how identity itself is never fixed, but a continual process of becoming, shaped and reshaped through ongoing connections and transformations.

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