“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice
(she was so much surprised that for the moment
she quite forgot how to speak good English)
(Carroll 19).
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses humour and absurdity not simply to entertain, but to gently unsettle our expectations of logic, order and correctness. Meaning in Wonderland is fluid, unstable and constantly renegotiated, much like the process of art-making itself.
This assemblage exhibition takes curiosity as its starting point. Curiosity here is not about getting things right, but about staying open. Rather than aiming for precision or resolution, the works embrace experimentation, play and intuitive discovery. The act of assembling becomes a form of thinking through making, requiring patience, attentiveness and some form of mischievousness. It allows the hands to think before the mind catches up. It trusts instincts, embraces trial and error, and gives space for things to feel right before they make sense.
Beneath the playful, at times awkward, objects surfaces lies a quiet seriousness. These works reflect on uncertainty, instability and the courage required to remain curious in a world that often demands clarity and certainty. Like Alice, the viewer is invited to linger in the in-between, where meaning is not fixed but constantly unfolding.
Image: May sweet dreams accompany you until dawn (2025) by Thu Thu San
