Don't Play Play is a phrase typically used by a voice of authority, a warning against what shouldn't be touched. It is a phrase many of us have also learned to say to ourselves, as we attempt to take custodianship of our own cultural heritage and personal histories — be it through speaking a mother tongue wrongly, misremembering the details of a recipe passed down or offending, unknowingly, something sacred through gesture alone.

But if we were to allow ourselves to Play Play , with care and attention, we can begin to experiment and evolve what is fixed, not to fit ourselves into traditions as they are, but to redefine them on our own terms in the present.
 

Drawing from art and design, Don’t Play Play unfolds in a familiar space made unfamiliar through the reimaginations and augmentations of everyday sights and objects. The living room becomes a physical manifestation of social rules, where comfort and negotiation sit side by side, a quiet battleground of old and new ideas sitting in tension with one another.