Synopsis

Foom represents the sound and feeling of second birth—sudden, when the self catches up with itself—a raw, disorienting clarity after rupture. It captures compressed, irreversible shifts, holding tension between collapse and breakthrough, asking what must break for growth and new presence. A curatorial approach to designing and recognising radical transitions, internally and externally. Foom is not just gestational onomatopoeia; it becomes a framework to articulate the tension between reckoning and rebuilding, making invisible thresholds tangible through forms and spaces that hold affective passage.

About Melvin Tan

Melvin Tan is the Creative Director of Currency, a design agency providing value through strategic design. He believes purposeful design can transform projects and businesses. He enjoys helping new businesses enter the market and revitalising existing brands. Co-founder of Hothouse in 2020, the project supports and prototypes local artistic practices, fostering experimentation and production to upend conventions. The collective collaborates with new media artists INTER—MISSION and speculative architecture lab formAxioms, blending expertise in contemporary art, technology, design, and architecture for innovative knowledge building and dissemination.

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