Part of “A Home Away From Home”, Framing Tomorrow: DECK Fundraiser Weekend 2025
About The Artist
Minstrel Kuik (b. 1976, Malaysia) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, painting, drawing, textile, poetry, and installation. Educated in Taiwan and France, she explores the politics of place, gender, and identity through a feminist lens, engaging Écriture féminine as a critical framework. Kuik has exhibited internationally at institutions such as the National Gallery Singapore, Musée du quai Branly (Paris), and FotoFest (Houston). Her accolades include the UOB Painting of the Year Award (2014), Higashikawa International Photographer Award (2013), and a Fukuoka Asian Art Museum residency (2015). Her works are held in major public collections across Asia and beyond.
Key to a Door | 2019
By Minstrel Kuik
Archival Print on Pear Paper | Edition of 1/3 | 92 x 61.5cm
UV Glaze and White Box Frame
Still life as a photographic genre has a presence that exudes an enigmatic encounter between the beholder and the object. Framed uniquely by the photographic medium, the domestic space takes the centre of the stage to spill its magic to the mundane world made of loners. A precious moment of clarity stands a chance to be preserved when the photographer decides to break free from her daily chore for the sake of staging a photograph.
A Home Away From Home
Curated by: John Z.W. Tung
In the heart of Singapore's heritage shophouses, generosity takes architectural form. A Home Away From Home emerges from an act of patronage: these storied walls opened as sanctuary while DECK's permanent photography centre takes shape, transforming family dwelling into cultural commons.
Here, photography finds itself arranged not as institutional display but as domestic inhabitant. Works hang as one might place family portraits — intimate and accessible, woven into the rhythms of daily life. Living room walls become galleries, kitchens house photobook libraries, and dining spaces foster the gatherings that sustain artistic community.
This exhibition serves as DECK’s housewarming, a celebration that launches our residence within these gifted walls while Singapore’s first purpose-built photography centre takes shape elsewhere.
What binds these works is not curatorial distance but the warmth of proximity. The home becomes method and meaning: a space where art encounters audience as guest meets host, where photography learns to inhabit the world as neighbour rather than artifact.
By Minstrel Kuik
Archival Print on Pear Paper | Edition of 1/3 | 92 x 61.5cm
UV Glaze and White Box Frame
Still life as a photographic genre has a presence that exudes an enigmatic encounter between the beholder and the object. Framed uniquely by the photographic medium, the domestic space takes the centre of the stage to spill its magic to the mundane world made of loners. A precious moment of clarity stands a chance to be preserved when the photographer decides to break free from her daily chore for the sake of staging a photograph.
A Home Away From Home
Curated by: John Z.W. Tung
In the heart of Singapore's heritage shophouses, generosity takes architectural form. A Home Away From Home emerges from an act of patronage: these storied walls opened as sanctuary while DECK's permanent photography centre takes shape, transforming family dwelling into cultural commons.
Here, photography finds itself arranged not as institutional display but as domestic inhabitant. Works hang as one might place family portraits — intimate and accessible, woven into the rhythms of daily life. Living room walls become galleries, kitchens house photobook libraries, and dining spaces foster the gatherings that sustain artistic community.
This exhibition serves as DECK’s housewarming, a celebration that launches our residence within these gifted walls while Singapore’s first purpose-built photography centre takes shape elsewhere.
What binds these works is not curatorial distance but the warmth of proximity. The home becomes method and meaning: a space where art encounters audience as guest meets host, where photography learns to inhabit the world as neighbour rather than artifact.