Group Exhibition NTU Museum, Singapore
21 January - 2 April 2026
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm
* Exhibition will be open on these special weekends:
Exhibition Opening: 20 Jan 2026
Singapore Artweek: 24-25 and 31 Jan-1 Feb 2026
NTU Open House: 28 Feb 2025
Location: On the cusp works can be found in three locations around the NTU Campus:
Nanyang Lake Pavilion
Chinese Heritage Centre Lawn
North Spine Plaza
What happens when different realms—past and present, virtual and physical, earthly and spiritual—converge? How do they speak to each other and what is passed on at points of transition? This exhibition explores how these intersections shape belonging, connection and identity through the lens of memory.
Artists Boedi Widjaja, Torlarp Larpjaroensook and Tromarama mine the archives of personal and collective memories embedded in the body, language, place, custom and social structures. They approach memory not as a static repository of the past, but a living force carried within us and continually re-interpreted. Spread across three venues at Nanyang Technological University, the works engage in dialogue with the sites they inhabit. Viewers are invited to linger and attune to the surrounding environments and the stories told through the works.
The search for grounding and connection can seem elusive in an ever-changing world. Practices we inherit, intergenerational stories and our collective experiences could offer strategies to make sense of this search. On the cusp considers how the bonds we forge—with one another and the world—are closely interconnected with what, and how, we choose to remember.
Boedi Widjaja: 东邪西毒 I Want to Infect You with History
Language and genetic code carry history and memory, keys to understanding personal and collective pasts and identity. 东邪西毒 I Want to Infect You with History is centred on a proposition: history is like a virus. It takes up space within the body, permeating our being and propagating across generations. It survives through language, DNA, gesture and lived experience. What happens to those whose histories are omitted because of displacement or dispossession? How can history regain lost ground through the body?
Boedi Widjaja engages in a speculative dialogue with a cell, mediated by a poem. This poem, composed in English and Bahasa Indonesia by the artist, is encoded and synthesised into DNA using a biocultural key shaped by his multilingual cultural inheritance. The installation inhabits the Nanyang Lake Pavilion, transforming it into a living cell that metabolises memory, language and genetic code.
The installation delves into diasporic experience and the complexities of negotiating home, identity and belonging. Boedi continues his long-standing collaboration with Dr. Eric Yap, Associate Professor in Human and Microbial Genetics at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science. With molecular code as a starting point, the installation presents explorations that manifest in poetry, sculpture, performance and photography. Through these strategies of transmission and translation, hidden narratives embedded within the body surface and take form. Moving from absence to presence, history reclaims agency as it replicates across the Pavilion site. Unstable and mutable, it reverberates through human contact, circulating and evolving across time and space.
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