White Space: The Living Space presented a curated selection from NAFA’s Permanent Collection, exploring how space is experienced, interpreted, and constructed across diverse media. Drawing from the educational concept of "white space" as open, flexible environments for creative exploration, the exhibition showcased works by both established and emerging artists.
Highlights included Ho Leng’s Living Room series, which spotlights Southeast Asian heritage homes, focusing on the forgotten house that once sheltered five generations of Muar Chinese Hokkien families in Malaysia. Chinese ink painting by Hong Sek Chern, where spaces were created by appropriating images of public buildings found online, as well as drawings by Koh Liang Jiang, whose works reflect the meticulous training of a draughtsman in a tradition of ink drawings, offer sensitive and localised interpretations of urban legends, ancient mythology and modern science fiction.
White Space offered a compelling reflection on lived, imagined, and cultural spaces, reinforcing the richness of Southeast Asian art within the NAFA Collection.
