Granny’s Nom Banh Chok by Natalie Savann Oh

Natalie Savann Oh welcomes participants to a communal dining space through the activation of her participatory work Granny’s Nom Banh Chok. In this immersive multi-sensorial experience, participants savour a Cambodian rice noodle dish served with fermented fish broth, while partaking in dialogue and exchange. Natalie will use an induction stove to heat the soup and she will do the prep of the ingredients in advance at her own kitchen.

Dates:

6 December 2025, Saturday

24 January 2026, Saturday

Time: 2pm - 5pm

Location:

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

Advisory Note: This activation involves food tasting, which includes fish and beans. Please check with the organisers ([email protected]) if you have any specific food allergies.

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 under the age of 13 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:

Natalie Savann Oh (b. 2002, Singapore) is an artist whose works revel in the often unsaid, where intergenerational care and memory gather. Through drawing, photography, and relational art, she explores the delicate entanglement of the perceptions of time, identity, and human experience. She is drawn to the in-between spaces of fiction and reality, often explored through delicate pen illustrations. Her current practice involves communicating with her grandmother, whom she collaborates with to uncover ancestral layers and unspoken emotions.

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.

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