Leather Weather: Currently on view at ArtScience Museum Singapore, Mar – Aug 2026

Skin is the largest organ of the human body. It senses, creases, reacts to temperature, and gathers the marks of a life lived. In Leather Weather, Afifah works with stoneware to suggest these qualities. Clay is pressed and folded into surfaces that appear to breathe, recalling the softness of hide or tissue. The work moves between different material worlds. Clay comes from the earth, while leather begins as part of an animal body, yet both are shaped by touch, time, and heat into
something enduring. Afifah brings these qualities together in a single form and invites the viewer to consider how one material can echo another.