In the opening weeks of Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Safe Zone, Artspace invites you to join a three-part reading group led by art historian Donna West Brett, author Shankari Chandran and historian Niro Kandasamy.

These intimate gatherings trace the ethical and aesthetic questions raised by images of war and the battlefield of representation itself during times of political conflict. Drawing from the ongoing concerns of Kulendran Thomas’s practice, this series explores the ‘postwar’—not as a shorthand for modernist art made after 1945 but as a generative category for any work emerging in the wake of violence or collective struggle. Through close readings of selected texts and artworks, this program considers the ethics of remembering atrocity, the limits or betrayals of its representation, and how certain images persist as unsettling and unsettled cultural objects.

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Session 1
Facilitated by Donna West Brett
Tuesday 18 November 2025
6-8pm

Session 2
Facilitated by Shankari Chandran
Tuesday 25 November 2025
6-8pm

Session 3
Facilitated by Niro Kandasamy
Tuesday 2 December 2025
6-8pm

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