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Cuturi Gallery is delighted to present Shape of Land, a solo presentation by Khairulddin Wahab (b. 1990, Singapore) that traces the concept of disenchantment through visual representations of land in the archive and examines the historical foundations and systems of power embedded in these representations.

Wahab approaches the archive through Max Weber’s concept of disenchantment as a point of departure; to unpack the disciplines, mechanisms and processes employed by colonial geographers, travellers, naturalists and artists to represent and mediate foreign lands.

Referencing materials such as …