Pineapple Pulp – Paper-making As Material Archive with Wang Xi Jie

Wang Xi Jie will engage participants in the intentional and careful process of paper-making as a method of archiving. Using primarily pineapple crowns, participants will be guided through the practice of foraging for pineapple crowns, and the drying and trimming of the final paper.

Dates: 

17 January 2026, Saturday

31 January 2026, Saturday

Time: 10am - 1pm

Location: Forest Discovery Centre @ OCBC Arboretum, Level 1 (Workshop Room), Gallop Extension, Singapore Botanic Gardens (Closed every last Monday of the month)

General notes:

• Photographs may be taken during the workshop as part of our documentation. By attending this programme, you consent to being photographed or filmed.
• Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the programme begins.
• While younger participants are welcome, children must be accompanied by a supervising adult, who should also register for the programme.
• We kindly ask that pets are not brought to the programme venues.
• This is a rain-or-shine event.

About the artist:

Wang Xi Jie (b. 2001, Malaysia) is a Singapore-based artist whose practice explores the complexities of place through sculptural objects, video, and print. His current research interest engages with the notion of 'tropical estrangement', investigating themes of fruits, heat, and decay within vernacular agri-cultures of Southeast Asia. His works have been exhibited in Singapore and internationally, including contributions to the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale and MOMENTUM 12 in Moss, Norway.

About Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care exhibition:

Like gardening, the act of keeping record involves processes of care: both require attention, patience, and recognition of the conditions that shape growth.

Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care frames the care of a garden as an analogy for a thoughtful approach to archiving.

Five artists from the BA (Hons) and Diploma in Fine Arts programmes at LASALLE College of the Arts—Dalilah Binti Mohamed Iqbal, Natalie Savann Oh, Nehal Agarwal, Wang Xi Jie and Zhen Hong Toh—contemplate how their desires and perspectives affect the archives they choose to keep, drawing on a range of media and socially engaged practices to reconsider archiving in expansive ways.

Though every archive may begin with a desire to remember, this exhibition reflects on the process and practice of archiving, and its afterlife. At its heart, Tending to the Garden: An Archive of Care is motivated by this human tendency to record—not only to hold on to individual memories, but to open new pathways for care to emerge.