Social Mirrors extends the question of cultural identity into the present. If culture reflects the conditions of its time, then contemporary society can be understood through the ways we consume, communicate and construct identity.

Working from Singapore as a lens, this investigation considers how life within a globalised, economically developed city shapes everyday behaviour. Consumer culture, social media, aspiration and the pursuit of progress become markers of contemporary culture alongside more traditional understandings of identity. Rather than treating these behaviours as incidental, the works examine them as records of the values and systems that define the present.

Projects within this investigation explore consumption, status, labour, desire and self-image, asking how identities are produced through participation in contemporary systems. The works function less as critiques than as observations, reflecting the contradictions, aspirations and rituals that characterise everyday life. Taken together, they consider contemporary culture as something actively performed, revealing not only how society behaves, but the conditions through which those behaviours are continually produced.