OH! Moonstone: A curious walk through Moonstone Lane (Ft. MuYi Creation) – Part of the OH! Open House 2026 Art Walk

Editor’s note: This piece reflects time spent at one of the four site-specific installations along the OH! Moonstone Art Walk.

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In Singapore, moving on is almost second nature.

We move on from bad investments, bad relationships, bad jobs. We move on from places too... not always because they disappear, but because they change, repurpose, or quietly carry on without us paying much attention. To linger feels inefficient. And Singaporeans don’t like wasting time.

Buildings are renovated and rebuilt. Warehouses take on new lives. Schools relocate. Shrines are shifted, re-sited. Entire neighbourhoods evolve, and even as they remain active and inhabited, we rarely stay long enough to notice what carries through.

Which is why OH! Moonstone feels different.

The 12th edition of OH! Open House’s flagship art walk explores the theme “Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same.” Set in and around Moonstone Lane, it unfolds across four site-specific works embedded within active private and public spaces across the estate.

Moonstone Lane has moved through many identities: from plantations and kampungs to warehouses, bottling plants, shrines, and today’s mix of residential and working spaces. Rather than treating these layers as something concluded or preserved in hindsight, OH! Moonstone situates art within places that continue to function, adapt, and be used.

Each artwork responds to this tension; by pausing within this shifting continuity. In a city always in motion, the walk invites attention to what settles into atmosphere, texture, and everyday use. The art doesn’t overwrite; it sits quietly inside them.

One of these sites is MuYi Creation, a working carpentry studio. While it functions as a place of woodwork and making, the space is designed almost like a house, with rooms, thresholds, and a sense of movement that feels more lived-in than industrial.

It’s within this setting that Milenko Prvački presents Abstraction for Beginners – Methods and Materials.

Over the years, Milenko Prvački’s practice has resisted neat categorisation. Working across painting, installation, and material assemblage, he often draws from the logic of making itself: layering, repetition, and adjustment... rather than from fixed imagery.

Materials are never incidental; they carry weight, memory, and use. Seen this way, the carpentry studio feels less like a venue and more like a natural continuation of his practice.

Installed inside an active carpentry environment, the works draw from the cogwheels of fabrication: cutting, assembling, refining... while sitting comfortably within a space that feels domestic as much as it does productive.

Plywood sheets, cabinetry offcuts, sawdust, and tools are no longer just background elements of labour; they become part of the visual and conceptual language of the work.

The distinctions between studio, workshop, and interior begin to blur. Prvački himself has noted that the studio’s house-like structure: its rooms, thresholds, and sense of movement — made it a setting his practice could respond to naturally.

The abstraction here isn’t removed from the space. It feels made for it; shaped by the materials, the process, and the way the studio is used.

In that sense, the exhibition* poses a quieter question: what happens when we don’t rush to move on, but allow spaces and stories... to remain unfinished, as extensions of what came before?

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*MuYi Creation is just one of four site-specific spaces along the OH! Moonstone walk — a single stop within a wider constellation of spaces across Moonstone Lane.

We’re not obliged to feature OH! Moonstone. But as a recurring annual art walk that consistently pushes beyond conventional exhibition formats, it feels worth experiencing – especially if you’re curious about how Singapore remembers (or forgets) its own spaces!

For those looking to turn it into a small weekend adventure, tickets are eligible for $40 in SG Culture Pass credits, which you can use to explore the Moonstone Lane estate and Poh Leng Building at your own pace.

Last day for Art Walk: 25th January 2026

Link to purchase tickets: https://ohopenhouse.org/OH-Moonstone-1