French and Moroccan artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou explores identity, hybridity, and systems of belief through a multidisciplinary practice. In Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees, he reinterprets The Conference of the Birds - a 12th-century allegorical poem by replacing birds with palm trees, shifting the narrative from spiritual journey to histories of forced displacement shaped by colonialism and global trade.

Recontextualised within Singapore, where palms symbolise a curated tropical modernity, the works challenge their decorative role, revealing them instead as witnesses to environmental strain, economic systems, and cultural memory. Across drawings, sculptures, photographic works, and installations, Lahlou turns the familiar into a site of tension, inviting reflection on the hidden histories embedded within everyday landscapes.