Where Do We Truly Belong?

EXHIBITION
Where Do We Truly Belong?
East Gallery, Midland Junction Arts Centre,

6 September - 9 November 2025

Artists: Kasia Kolikow & Nazerul Ben-Dzulkefli

Tracing contours of lived realities, Ben-Dzulkefli and Kolikow move beyond a singular notion of place, delving into the complex terrains of being and belonging, where identity is continually negotiated across shifting geographies, social dynamics, and multiple planes of existence. 

Inspired by the complexities of his Malay-Javanese-Acehnese heritage and Singaporean upbringing, Ben-Dzulkefli explores the visual language of gunungan offerings, hantaran and sesajen to create these frankensteinian stacked site markers that function as monuments for finding one’s bearings, offerings to the co-collaborators who have existed in Boorloo and the areas surrounding Swan Valley where he chose to make a home. What aspects of one’s identity are layered with new ones developed along the way? What social mores from his old home-island does he marinate with new ones he encountered here? How do we let our emotions and memories ferment into new lived experiences? If memories and belonging is tactile, what would they feel like on our fingertips, face and lips?

Images coming mid October 2025.