Photo: Jonathan Tan

“It’s a difficult world out there. What if our world was softer?” It is this train of thought that led Singaporean mixed media artist Masuri Mazlan to show that industrial materials — normally hard, angular, rigid, dull, and unyielding — can actually be soft, likeable, and even intriguing.

Mazlan’s 3D paintings, sculptures, and installations explore identity politics, queer aesthetics, and the domestic sphere as a destabilising realm using materials such as silicone, polyurethane, and gypsum.