​The Fabulous Stories to Save the Green Planet, 2024 Cultural Olympics Exhibition Programme, Gangwon Cultural Heritage Exchange Exhibition, Gyeongpo Beach, South Korea

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Adeline’s practice pivots on the interstitial spaces between private memory and public remembrance – embodied in the fragility of small, intimate objects. An abiding concern for her are the ways in which particular sewing techniques may hold significance for acts of storytelling, for narratives heard, told and retold as a bulwark against the attritions of personal and communal amnesia. The chief motif in the works – The Sun, The Earth and The Moon, and One (and the same) – is the fabric rosette, commonly found in homes across Southeast Asia. They were crafted from bits of scrap fabric, and used as adornments on tablecloths, runners, blankets, and even sold for extra income.

The rosettes also serve as a way for Adeline to reclaim the collaborative process as a way to resurface past wisdom seeing that the works in the exhibition are ultimately about resilience, and care. As a collective ritual that reflects a waste-less, making-do and sustainable approach by the generations that came before us, she intends to involve contributions from the communities in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Canada and South Korea due to the shared nature of this particular craft practice. The works will further expound on Watsuji Tetsurō (1889-1960) idea of fūdo, social connections and the betweenness of humanity as hope for the future.

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