Tina Kim Gallery
“The Calling of Home”
July 2 – September 6, 2025
Exhibition | New York, NY
The Calling of Home is a quietly powerful meditation on the idea of home— not merely as a familiar place or a destination, but as something being constantly made, unmade and remade. Curated by Wells Fray‑Smith and Clara Che Wei Peh, the show brings together four artists — Cheong See Min (Malaysia), Marcos Kueh (Malaysia), Jennifer Tee (Netherlands) and Khairulddin Wahab (Singapore) — whose work explores the resonances of place, displacement, cultural memory, and personal history. Akin to the idea of a spiritual pilgrimage, and against the backdrop of migration, memory and identity, the four artists ask: what it means to belong, to leave, to return, and to be transformed in the process.
From fiber and textile to painting and collage, these objects invite a spiritual reading of place as an evolving condition — one that encompasses longing, transformation, belonging and pilgrimage. And it encourages viewers to see home as a spiritual orientation, a thread of memory and identity stretching through time and geography.
(Image: Cheong See Min, “A Place of Solace (Pineapple planters and Chinese Altar),” 2025.)
Cheong See Min’s hand-woven textiles using pineapple-leaf yarns and natural dyes are material metaphors for roots and reaching, the organic and the made.
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"The Calling of Home" (installation view), Tina Kim Gallery, 2025.
Marcos Kueh, “The Three Madonna’s” (installation view), 2024.
"The Calling of Home" (installation view), Tina Kim Gallery, 2025.
Jennifer Tee, "Tampan Ship of Souls," 2016.
Khairulddin Wahab, "On the Origin of the World," 2025.
