Roadside beauties and healing remedies illuminates a fascinating aspect of traditional healing: the creation of cooling tea recipes from common roadside beauties - wildflowers and herbs native to Southeast Asia and the broader Asian continent. Especially relevant given island living and the recent escalating heat, the piece playfully highlights the medicinal benefits of these often-overlooked ingredients. It serves as a vital reminder for us to embrace our role as custodians of ancestral wisdom and knowledge passed down through generations.
The work extends the artist's focus, initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, into addressing the pressing concerns of our contemporary climate emergency, advocating for sustainable solutions.
About Adeline Kueh
Adeline Kueh makes installations and socially embodied works that reconsider our relationships with objects and rituals. Using drawing as a conceptual tool, she maps historical trajectories with craft and oral tradition. As a co-founder of the Critical Craft Collective (Singapore) and the pan-Borneo Serumpun Collective, her artistic and curatorial research examines the entanglement of the elements of craft and the politics of care. A Senior Lecturer with LASALLE’s MA Fine Arts programme, Adeline has exhibited internationally, including World Architecture Festival, Venice Biennale, Hermes, NTU CCA IdeasFest, and Asia NOW. She is a 2024-2026 Ewha Womans University’s Global Fellow.
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