Art Remembers explores how artists bring overlooked histories and forgotten lived experiences back into view. Working with official records, personal photographs, mass media, digital communities, and traces in the natural environment, the artists in this exhibition engage with archives in expansive and unexpected ways.
Their works recover stories that may be absent from national narratives, omitted from official archives, or lost over time.
Bringing together recent contemporary commissions and works from the National Collection, the exhibition reflects on the power of art to challenge silences, confront historical inequalities, and offer new ways of remembering Southeast Asia's past.