About

about

Working across mediums including photography, audio, installation and video, my practice focuses on how representation is used in image-making and how difference can be negotiated through perception/reception, and the materiality of photographs.


I meet, interview, photograph and make video recordings of people and places they inhabit. I also work with archival material - mainly family photographs and documents, by reworking the form and content of slides, photo prints or negatives. These processes induce many questions: What is happening between myself and the subject, myself and the place, myself and the object? How is one looking? How can one tell, or retell a story or memory? How can one listen? Embody an experience?


One of the ongoing topics in my practice is displacement as a result of movement and migration, focusing on emotional and psychic uneasiness related to ideas of agency, home and belonging. The works begin with the personal, and then build to consider ways the personal interacts with society, the state, the geopolitical. 


Through my work over the years, I learn, unlearn, understand, and open myself up to different ideologies, beliefs, histories and realities through the people I meet and situations I navigate. While working through understanding and communicating the complexities of familial and societal ties and rifts are important, equally so are how these ideas can be articulated in the aesthetic form and its presentation. This aesthetic process functions as an extension, projection and documentation of the processual encounters. 


I have artist collaborations - Progressive Disintegrations (with Hilmi Johandi, Chua Chye Teck and Marc Gloede, Singapore, 2020-present) and Sightlines (with Michelle Wong, C&G Artpartment, Lam Wing Sze, Kin Choi Lam, South Ho, Hong Kong, 2016-2019) where we work through ideas of communality and authorship through art and exhibition making.

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