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Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency

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Iridescent Objects Under the Shade

Khairullah Rahim (Singapore)

16 Jun 2026, Tue, 7pm

1hr

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Annexe Studio

Free
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Synopsis

Titled Iridescent Objects Under the Shade, Khairullah Rahim’s research project explores how beauty can function as concealment, protection and coded resistance. During the residency, Khairullah investigates props and set pieces as performative extensions of persona, memory and desire, while considering shade—both ecological and metaphorical—as a framework for visibility, attention and care. The project reflects on how light, shadow, transparency and opacity might offer strategies of camouflage, survival and safety for marginalised bodies within hostile environments. Through objects staged as carriers of affect and memory, the research examines how beauty and inauthenticity can complicate exposure, vulnerability and protection.

 

Special thanks to contributors and collaborators Elden Zachary, George Chua, H.M., and Zeha.

Advisory:
Advisory 16 due to some mature themes.
Admission Age:
16 and above.
Language: English
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Artist Information

Khairullah Rahim

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Khairullah Rahim is a contemporary artist and educator whose practice examines queerness, poz resilience, working-class subjectivities, and nature. Central to his work is material experimentation, reimagining aesthetics as conceptual tools of camouflage, seduction and survival. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University (2023) and teaches at LASALLE College of the Arts. Rahim has participated in residencies at IASPIS (Stockholm), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), Taipei Artist Village (Taipei), YOUKOBO (Tokyo) and the Goethe-Institut (Singapore). He received the IMPART Award for Visual Arts (2017), and his works are held in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum and the SUNPRIDE Foundation.

Date & Time

16 Jun 2026, Tue

7pm

Esplanade Annexe Studio
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