Slow Making is a collection of encounters made up of personal stories articulated and explored through materiality and social engagement.

Curated by Andari Suherlan, the show explores the works of jewellery artist Vivian Qiu in collaboration with interior designers Suriana and Leslie Ham.

Inspired by the Slow Art movement, Slow Making investigates relationships between the ways of looking and creating that promote mindfulness and well-being in a desensitised digital and post-pandemic age.

The first part of the exhibition is the presentation of Vivian Qiu’s art practice, which explores sentimentality and self-healing through materials such as her rice fabrics, copper ribbons, and soil. She captures her highly personal experiences and intimate emotions in the sixteen works, displaying her life’s narratives through its titles. Her collection reiterates jewellery making as an art practice that is activated and contextualised by the body and its wearer.

Not only does the exhibition acknowledge the body as means of activating and contextualising jewellery designs, but the exhibition also recognises physical presence and participation of audiences that challenge boundaries between jewellery objects and its viewer. Through carefully considered spatial design and public programs, audience engagement is emphasised to allow opportunities for connection with the self, materials, and others. This includes two workshops and an interactive work inspired by the artist’s ongoing project ‘Life Line’, that visitors can contribute to the greater narrative of shared experience.