Dates: 15 November 2025 - 1 February 2026

Timings: Daily 9:00am - 6:00pm (closed every last Monday of the month)

Venue: Forest Discovery Centre @ OCBC Arboretum, Level 1, Gallop Extension

About the exhibition

Like gardening, the act of keeping record involves processes of care: both require attention, patience, and recognition of the conditions that shape growth. 

Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care frames the care of a garden as an analogy for a thoughtful approach to archiving. Five artists from the BA (Hons) and Diploma in Fine Arts programmes at 
LASALLE College of the Arts,—Dalilah Binti Mohamed Iqbal, Natalie Savann Oh, Nehal Agarwal, Wang Xi Jie and Zhen Hong Toh—contemplate how their desires and perspectives affect the archives they choose to keep, drawing on a range of media and socially engaged practices to reconsider archiving in expansive ways. 

Though every archive may begin with a desire to remember, this exhibition reflects on the process and practice of archiving, and its afterlife. At its heart, Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care is motivated by this human tendency to record—not only to hold on to individual memories, but to open new pathways for care to emerge.

About the curators

Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care is curated by students from the BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and the World programme at LASALLE College of the Arts.