Synopsis:

Join our exhibition curator (Peter Lee or Dominic Low) to hear their thoughts and get exclusive behind-the-scenes insights into the world of early photography, and how it was used in the Peranakan community.

Peter Lee is an independent art and heritage consultant, and the honorary curator of the NUS Baba House, a historical house museum managed by the National University of Singapore. He is the co-author of The Straits Chinese House (1998). For ACM and TPM he has curated the exhibitions Junk to Jewels: The Things that Peranakans Value (2008), Sarong Kebaya: Peranakan Fashion and its International Sources (2011), and Port Cities: Multicultural Emporiums of Asia, 1500–1900 (2016). In 2016, he also co-curated Singapore, Sarong Kebaya and Style at the Fukuoka Art Museum and the Shoto Museum in Tokyo. He is guest curator for the Amek Gambar exhibition.

Dominic Low is an assistant curator at the Peranakan Museum. His previous projects include Joseon Korea: Court Treasures and City Life and the contemporary art commission Grains of Thought by Eng Tow (2015). He received his BA in History of Art with Material Studies from University College London.