Adeline Kueh

Adeline Kueh is an accomplished artist whose work spans installations, photography, and embodied pieces that explore the relationship between people and the rituals and objects around them.

Adeline Kueh's Art Style

Kueh's art reflects a deep engagement with personal histories and overlooked moments, often transforming these elements into modern-day totems imbued with desire and longing. Her art style is characterized by her use of drawing as a conceptual tool to map out historical trajectories across time and space.

Her works incorporate found objects and new productions, reflecting a blend of the old and the new. In recent years, her focus has shifted towards themes of intimate labor and the politics and poetics of care, driven by the ecological turn. Her installations and photographs serve as social objects inscribed with histories and narratives, questioning the kinds of knowledge that are produced.

During her residency at STPI, Kueh produced a significant body of work centered on transformative acts against forgetting and the concept of intimate and invisible labor within the home. Her artworks, created during this period, are imbued with raw emotions. Kueh engaged various persons and communities as crafters, mediating between the flows of capital and labor.

Her research interests encompass hauntings and monstrosity within Southeast Asian contexts, architecture, and adaptive design.

Exhibitions of Adeline Kueh's Works

Kueh has showcased her work across diverse international venues, including the United Kingdom, USA, South Korea, The Netherlands, Turkey, Indonesia, Serbia, Australia, and Singapore. With a strong foundation in critical studies, Adeline has also chaired and presented at numerous cultural studies conferences in the UK, Germany, Australia, Finland, Hungary, Singapore, and Malaysia.