This investigation began with a question first explored through XIV: What is our culture?

Singapore's rapid transformation since independence has produced a city in constant negotiation with itself. As neighbourhoods are rebuilt and communities evolve, the physical landscape often changes faster than collective memory can form. Within a young and highly globalised nation, cultural identity is not inherited as a fixed tradition but continually shaped through the people, histories and everyday experiences that occupy it.

Rather than searching for a singular definition of Singaporean culture, this body of work considers culture as an ongoing process of accumulation and exchange. It examines the visual languages that emerge from the coexistence of diverse communities and asks how they might contribute to a contemporary Singaporean identity.

Murals, artworks and cultural initiatives draw from community-specific motifs, vernacular imagery and the intersection of traditional and contemporary aesthetics to construct visual compositions that reflect this complexity. Together, the works propose that a national visual language is not something waiting to be discovered, but something continuously being negotiated, expanded and remade.