Image by Mae Hweei, for APPC

We Leave in Peace is an interactive installation that attempts to engage with the physical residues of Peace Centre's life, in conversation with our personal lives. Participants are invited to bring and leave behind any physical trinket that once (or still does) hold personal significance to them, but they would like to/need to move on from. The items will be free for taking until the end of Peace Centre's extended lease, after which whatever remains will be disposed of.

<aside> <img src="/icons/camera_gray.svg" alt="/icons/camera_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Submissions are uploaded onto the Instagram page, @left.in.peace_ , for documentation, and for people to check in on their items should they be interested.

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This is a very broad invitation for items that could be something you hold closely but need to/want to move on from, or simply a trinket you fancy but no longer have space in your room — anything that people want to leave behind. Whoever comes by can take whatever they wish to, and are invited to leave behind a note on what they took, and why.

This parallels what is going on with Peace Centre, where previous tenants have left behind items, some of which are simply biding their time waiting for the building’s demolition, but some of which have also been given a second life by the current tenants. So people can leave their items behind, with the possibility that someone else might take them. Everything else that is left behind will be left behind. With Peace and in Peace.

Instructions will be set up such that the space can be unmanned and people can interact with it as and when/however they feel.

In the duration of their Residency, the curator Mae Hweei had been taking photos of items that people have left behind in Peace Centre. They also printed out and placed some of their own photographs around the space, and these prints will also be free for taking. The space is also already decorated with graffiti, which inherently is also meant to be & will be simply left behind with the building.