Syaheedah Iskandar is a curator working with vernacular ways of seeing, thinking and being. Drawing on Southeast Asia’s visual culture(s), she looks into entanglements between the unseen and the hypervisual, and their translations across material and new media practices. Since joining Singapore Art Museum, she has worked on several projects, most recently, Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest (2026), SAM Fellowship with Shooshie Sulaiman, Building a ‘non-institution’ institution (2024-2025) and Nguyen Trinh Thi’s 47 Days, Sound-less (2024). She was the curator working with Ponita Keo, recipient of the 8th Objectifs Documentary Award (Open Category), which culminated in the exhibition, The hair between us at the Chapel Gallery.