The World Rolled off His Tongue
Stamford Arts Centre•Jan 21, 2026 — Feb 13, 2026
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The World Rolled off His Tongue is the solo exhibition by Singaporean artist-curator Zulkhairi Zulkiflee. The exhibition title is inspired by a collage the artist made in 2024, which serves as a metaphorical nudge to the Malay-Singaporean slang term “world.” The English word, through a semantic shift, illustrates a conversational penchant that captures risible histrionics to innocent embellishment in storytelling.
In the exhibition, Zul hones the slang term as a creative move for play and experimentation, as ideas jump through iterative gestures and associative thinking. A significant motif and “protagonist” in the exhibition is the pavilion, which the artist situates as a space where such idiosyncratic exchanges occur.
In this context, the pavilion also serves as a mnemonic structure and “monument” for its capacity to evoke formative memories and its potential to accommodate other structural significance. Through paintings on photo paper, collages, sculpture, and narrative writing,…
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The World Rolled off His Tongue
Stamford Arts Centre•Jan 21, 2026 — Feb 13, 2026
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The World Rolled off His Tongue is the solo exhibition by Singaporean artist-curator Zulkhairi Zulkiflee. The exhibition title is inspired by a collage the artist made in 2024, which serves as a metaphorical nudge to the Malay-Singaporean slang term “world.” The English word, through a semantic shift, illustrates a conversational penchant that captures risible histrionics to innocent embellishment in storytelling.
In the exhibition, Zul hones the slang term as a creative move for play and experimentation, as ideas jump through iterative gestures and associative thinking. A significant motif and “protagonist” in the exhibition is the pavilion, which the artist situates as a space where such idiosyncratic exchanges occur.
In this context, the pavilion also serves as a mnemonic structure and “monument” for its capacity to evoke formative memories and its potential to accommodate other structural significance. Through paintings on photo paper, collages, sculpture, and narrative writing,…
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