Michael Lin @National Gallery Singapore

*Gathering on the Lawn* responds to the Padang’s long history as a civic ground for communal gathering. Featuring artist-designed paper lantern bags bearing batik-inspired motifs from Singapore’s visual and material heritage, the work is activated through performances and participatory experiences across four festival weekends. Visitors are invited to walk, create and gather, thus becoming active participants. By centering collective action and shared experience, the work reflects the festival theme, “The Power in Us,” affirming public space as a site of connection and cultural memory.

Concurrently, Michael Lin's new public installation, *Untitled Gathering*, is on view on Level 2 of the City Hall Wing at the National Gallery Singapore. *Untitled Gathering* 

transforms the simple act of sitting into a reflection on cultural memory, connection and shared agency. Its hand-painted wooden furniture pieces carry batik-inspired motifs. Visitors are invited to sit, move and rearrange the pieces, becoming co-creators of an ever-shifting composition. The work highlights the quiet power of collective action and the everyday gestures that bring people together.

The motifs are adapted from batik pieces by Little Nonya Batik and realised with student collaborators from LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.