Old furniture, glass, steel, polyurethane, fibreglass, epoxy resin, fabric, photographs, vinyl print, water, pump and mister

Dimensions variable

Commissioned by Singapore Art MuseumIn this work, “home”—so often imagined as a site of safety and belonging—is reconfigured and presented as a haunted shell: a place where identity must be negotiated through absence, adaptation and resilience. Masuri Mazlan brings together salvaged furniture, latex skins, expanding foam and photographic fragments in a sprawling installation that conjures the lingering presences of bodies withheld from sanctuary. These materials grow, peel and distort across the familiar surfaces of beds and tables, forming wound-like membranes and hollowed spaces that suggest both shelter and refusal.

Rooted in personal history yet resonating with a broader collective experience, the work gestures towards the shared reality of persisting amid precarity and the violence of exclusion. Masuri draws from memories of fractured belongings—of homes that were unstable or denied altogether—and filters them through sculptural forms that feel intimate yet unsettled.

The sculptures in this space do not linger at the margins; they assert their presence—too large, too soft, too strange to be contained or ignored. Here, haunting is not horror but a form of endurance: a persistent flicker, a soft defiance and a refusal to disappear.

Text by Teng Yen Hui

Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum.