Transfer

16 May—3 August 2025

Artists
Arahmaiani (ID)
Cian Dayrit (PH)
Patricia Perez Eustaquio (PH)
Yee I-Lann (MY)
Mella Jaarsma (ID)
Eko Nugroho (ID)
Moe Satt (MM)
Jakkai Siributr (TH)

Curator
Rachael Vance

Transfer centred on contemporary visual artists with connections to Southeast Asia who explored textiles as a medium. Spanning embroidery, stitching, sculptural installations, film, wall-based works, performance, and participatory pieces, the exhibition showcased a proliferation of textile and fibre art practices that reinterpreted cultural heritage through a contemporary lens at the intersection of art and life.

The selected artists were recognised as important figures in this conversation, offering work that reimagined and elevated deeply personal practices while transmitting cultural experiences and traditions. The diversity of pieces on display functioned as intimate records that carried meaning and offered fresh perspectives on how culture is passed from generation to generation and how it shifts over time.

The works’ tactile and sometimes decorative nature served as a strategy to draw viewers into conversations concerning cultural specificity, community, and critical reflections on political, social, and historical contexts, as well as the dissection of power structures.

Exhibition Catalogue

This free digital catalogue includes documentation of the exhibition alongside an essay by curator Rachael Vance exploring how contemporary textile and fibre art practices from Southeast Asia serve as powerful sites of cultural transmission, resistance, and reimagination. 

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Installation view of Moe Satt Parasol Alternative 2018 in Transfer at UniSC Art Gallery. Photo: Carl Warner.