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15/08/2026

Rajinder Singh – SS Rajula (2026)
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"At the centre of 'Saffron Crossings' is the SS Rajula, a ship bound to my own family history. My grandfather, my father and I each travelled on the Rajula, three generations crossing between India and Malaya at different moments in time. The ship became a way for me to think about migration through something intimate and specific: one vessel carrying people, belongings, languages, memories and inherited worlds across the sea.

For Saffron Crossings, the Rajula has been reconstructed in bamboo, rice paper, acrylic paint and cotton twine. Its open structure gives it the quality of a drawing made in space. Light passes through the hull, decks and rigging, allowing the ship to feel simultaneously physical, fragile and remembered.

The materials and methods of its construction are equally important. Made in Malaysia through collaboration with makers working in the tradition of paper effigies, the work brings the history of the Rajula into conversation with another local language of craft and making.

Across the exhibition I return repeatedly to the vessel, the frame, the crossing and the question of inheritance. The Rajula gathers those ideas into a single object. It carried three generations of my family, and here it carries the accumulated images and memories from which 'Saffron Crossings' emerged."

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Rajinder Singh – SS Rajula (2026) | Bamboo, rice paper, acrylic paint and cotton twine, Approx. 250 cm (H) × 240 cm (L) × 45 cm (W)
Designed by Lee Mok Yee and Rajinder Singh
Made by Eric Ng and Marvin Goh, Ding Feng Paper Effigies Trading

Rajinder Singh's Saffron Crossings runs till 26 September 2026 at Wei-Ling Gallery, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

14/08/2026

Khabir Roslan's artistic practice interrogates interrelationships through compost soil and other ordinary materials, drawing on his understanding of Physics and Nusantara (Archipelago) Cosmology. Across these four works currently showing in The Dia Space at Medan Pasar, he builds allegories around social cohesion, strength, and resilience, moving between a large-scale painting and three smaller studies in fabric and soil.

'Sang Hijau' (2023) carries associations of renewal, balance, and harmony through green, the colour tied to nature and growth. The work stands for strength and for the pulse running through living things, a union built on shared values and on a tie to soil and earth, what Khabir calls Akar Bumi. He finds the same entanglement in honeycombs and in H₂O, where molecules arrange themselves with geometric precision. Carbon does this too. Its hexagonal bonds structure DNA, the material basis of life itself.

'Tebing Singgora' (2025), 'Mendongak Langit' (2025), and 'Lapik Teduh' (2025) continue this inquiry at a smaller scale. Made from compost soil and gauze stitched onto bandage, soil serves directly as pigment here, letting time and organic process mark the surface. Stitching, layered textures, and irregular form run through all three pieces, tracking cycles of healing and change through the same slow accumulation that shapes the compost soil itself.

Currently on show in our pop-up exhibition at The DIA Space, Medan Pasar, till 6 September 2026.

13/08/2026

ARTIST TALK – Of Soil & Self: A Conversation with Khabir Roslan at The Dia Space
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In this sharing session, Khabir Roslan will talk about his journey as an artist and the experiences that shaped his work. Soil is his key material, and through it he explores place, memory, everyday life and our relationship with the spaces around us. He will share the stories behind the works presented at Dia Space and explain how his approach to soil developed over time.
The session offers a closer look at his practice, from where it began to how his ideas and experiences continue to shape his work today.

Registrations are through the QR code above or through the link below:
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Date: 22nd August 2026
Time: 2 PM (GMT+8)
Location: The Dia Space
Level 1, 4, Medan Pasar, City Centre, 50050 Kuala Lumpur

Limited to 30 Pax only.

WLG Salon x The Dia Space is featured at The Dia Space from 5 August – 6 September 2026.
The Dia Space is located at Level 1, 4, Medan Pasar, City Centre, 50050 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur.

The exhibition is free and open to the public, with visiting hours running from Wednesday to Sunday, 10am until 6pm.

12/08/2026

DRAWING THE CROSSING — SS RAJULA

Three generations of Rajinder Singh's family crossed between India and Malaya aboard the SS Rajula. In Saffron Crossings, he draws the ship onto the gallery floor by hand, barefoot, using a long bamboo stick, his body moving around and through the vessel as it emerges. He traces what the voyage left behind beyond its passengers. Memory, language, belief, the habits of seeing passed down through a family.

A bamboo replica of the ship sits in the space.
Its shadow shifts across the paper as he works, one ship layered over the other. His memory joins the larger history of migration across the Bay of Bengal.

Visitors can take part too. Write the names of your ancestors on the paper, or retrace the lines of the Rajula.

The ship disappears but the crossing remains.

Rajinder Singh's Saffron Crossings runs till 26 September 2026 at Wei-Ling Gallery, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

11/08/2026

Rajinder Singh's exhibition 'Saffron Crossings' is on until 26 September at Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur.

There is a small secret upstairs.
Find the SS Rajula. Then look up.
On the first floor, overlooking the ship, two Rajula-red paintings hold a grid of 63 tiny passengers, part manifest, part phulkari, part memory.

Every Tuesday, some depart. They never return. A passenger manifest counts bodies.
Phulkari builds patterns by counting threads. Here, each passenger is also a stitch, and the pattern is completed by taking stitches away.

How many are left when you visit?
Find the ship.
Find the passengers.
Count the absences.
The crossing is still happening.

08/08/2026

“In 2021, my family and I moved to Tokyo as the pandemic years came to a close. In a small quarantine hotel, my daughter took her first steps.

The days are long, but the years are short. Soon after, she joined a local Hoikuen (daycare) and met Yuzuki-chan. They hiked together, had playdates, and celebrated birthdays. Through the two of them, I grew close to Yuzuki's father, Masa, and our families started spending most weekends together.

Masa wanted to write a storybook, and these drawings mark the beginnings of our collaboration. He wrote a story about 風を食べる (kaze o taberu, "eating wind"). How peculiar, I thought, in Bahasa we would call that "Makan Angin."

Masa and I watch our daughters grow, knowing that one day, life may separate them. For now we take the long walks, the shared birthdays, the drawings we make of them side by side, and try to hold onto them a little longer.”

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Malaysian artist Anwar works across cultural barriers, power dynamics, and social constructs, using motion design, situational crafts, and physical computing. His art and research center on building connections with fellow artists from Southeast Asia.

Currently based in Tokyo, Anwar is part of the Indonesian Contemporary Art and Culture (ICAD) Curatorial, Research, and Writing team. He holds a B.A. in Media Innovation from Multimedia University Malaysia and an M.A. in Fine Art and Technology from MARA Institute of Technology, Malaysia.

Image: Anwar & Masafumi Matsumoto, Daughters I, II & III (2024). Drawing, colored pencil on paper, 72 x 59 cm each.

Currently on show in our pop-up exhibition at The DIA Space, Medan Pasar, till 6 September 2026.

07/08/2026

Rajinder Singh builds his diptych, 'To Keep Safe / ਸਾਂਭ (Sāmbh)' around a single structural idea, that the frame is the ship. Its stepped, carved edges recall the old SS Rajula, the vessel that carried Punjabi families out to Malaya and back, and two carved faces sit at either end of the opening, watching whoever stands in front of the canvas. The frame itself sits around the painting the way a hull holds its passengers.

The visual grammar comes from phulkari, though nothing here is embroidered. Phulkari was never decorative in a passive sense. It was hours of women's labour logged into cloth, geometry built stitch by stitch for garments worn at weddings and carried at partings. Rajinder takes that same discipline of repetition and translates it into paint and found material, keeping the patience of the form while discarding its thread.

The diptych's seam runs down the centre of the work, straight through the hull and through the sun wheel at the bottom edge. It is a visible break in a surface built to hold Punjab, Malaya, folklore, and family memory together in one image.

Two panels, one crossing. The seam stays legible as the join between the parts, the way a migration itself is never a single unbroken line but a joining of separate pieces, sailed and remembered in two places at once.

This work is part of Rajinder Singh’s 'Saffron Crossings', running till 26 September 2026 at Wei-Ling Gallery, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

Image: Rajinder Singh – To Keep Safe/ਸਾਂਭ (Sāmbh) (2026) | Mixed media on canvas, EVA foam, acrylic, and found materials, 70cm x 100cm (Diptych)

06/08/2026

Rajinder Singh's new book, 'The Fugitive Gesture' is a remarkable work of theoretical fabulation that does not simply invoke the undercommons, but finds it already at work in cloth, muscle, memory and gesture.

Moving restlessly between poetry, speculative narrative, diagram and critical theory, he reimagines the turban as portable architecture, fugitive archive and material practice of care. A beautiful and generative book about how forms of common life are carried, folded and sustained through the smallest gestures of collective persistence.

The book is out now at Wei-Ling Gallery, with a limited pre-launch price of RM40 (normal RM60).

Rajinder Singh's exhibition 'Saffron Crossings' runs at Wei-Ling Gallery till September 26th.
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This Sunday, Tintabudi will be hosting POETICS OF THE MUNDANE, a talk with Rajinder Singh and Nazir Harith Fadzilah on the turban as a way of moving through and seeing the world.
📍 MRT TTDI Exit B
🗓️ Sunday, 9 August 2026
⏰ 3:00 p.m.
Please do register at events.tintabudi.com

05/08/2026

Join us this Sunday for a conversation with Rajinder Singh and Nazir as they discuss The Fugitive Gesture: The Turban and the Gestural Undercommons.

Hosted by Tintabudi, the conversation offers an opportunity to hear Rajinder reflect on the publication and the ideas behind it.

We look forward to seeing you there.

📍: MRT TTDI Exit B
🗓️: Sunday, 9 August 2026
⏰: 3:00 p.m.

Registration at events.tintabudi.com

04/08/2026

Three artists. Three distinct practices. One shared journey.
Wei-Ling Gallery is pleased to present WLG Salon x The Dia Space, a collaboration featuring works by Anwar Suhaimi, Khabir Roslan, and Lee Mok Yee. While each artist approaches their practice differently, they share a common connection through the WLG Incubator Program.

Built around mentorship, dialogue, and artistic development, the WLG Incubator Program provides artists with the time and support to develop their practice. This presentation brings together works that reflect the different directions each artist has taken, whether through material exploration, personal reflection, or observations of the world around them.

Rather than seeking a common style or theme, this collaboration celebrates the individuality of each artist. Together, the works offer different ways of seeing and invite visitors to engage with a range of thoughtful contemporary practices at The Dia Space.
WLG Salon x The Dia Space is featured at The Dia Space from 5 August – 6 September 2026.

The Dia Space is located at Level 1, 4, Medan Pasar, City Centre, 50050 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur.
The exhibition is free and open to the public, with visiting hours running from Wednesday to Sunday, 10am until 6pm.

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