2021
VISUAL STORIES OF MENTAL HEALTH
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A open-call response to one of my friend's workplace which is a co-practice space for psychotherapists to book a space with their clients for counselling sessions. My motive of this work brings back to the body frottages that I had made for the MARKMAKERS book series. The book will be on sale at that space.
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DEBRIS/ABLE
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Happening at CRANE for a one day pop-up exhibition to celebrate EARTH DAY, the three of us came together to present our up-cycled artworks.
"I used helium balloons for my facial portraits cutted at a random shape and I work through those shapes. Abit of matisse-style. It's actually my birthday balloons fr my last year's birthday, haha! For my two A4 pcs, they are my frottages, I take walks and then rubbed the paper on the building concrete (like a signature). Using carbon paper as a indirect drawing tool, I traced out the buildings that are taken in my own photos to impose on a complete work, it came out well, because the work also talks about spatiality on textures."
FLUID SPACES AT ALIWAL STREET
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Adding in a ero-inspired fruit as part of my CB (pussy in Hokkien) works that I will still continue to experiment on and also fun to do!
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Accompanying it is a old work which had been shown before in Coda Culture's opening party in 2019. Ironic, huh? I am showing this again at the old Coda Culture space (a photography/design team will take over to set up their office there).
CORRIDOORS
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"A YEAR OF SOLITUDE"
12 pieces of white paper.
3 government letters.
Broken glass shards.
White mask.
Pen nib.
White Long dress.
This work imposes on my year long solitude in a government body, being forced to re-think about things that are taken lightly and the emotions being written down in a constrained government letter paper. During the walk, I penned down my feelings while stepping on a paper equivalent to one month. The broken glass shards formed a dangerous pathway during a turbulent period in my thoughts.
It represents the oppression and regression and we are just being found at fault regardless. They are not willing to help on what is the problem.
A BLIP IN TIME
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A story of a cat who will be playing “hide-and-seek” with individuals visiting the library space. In reference to a very cute and heart-warming story that had happened in Japan, a cat attempted many times to sneak into a library but failed. What is the cat trying to do in the library? What is in the library that attracts the cat to come? It seems to me a very small homage of what the cat in Japan is trying to achieve.
The cat can be anywhere. Be it at a corner or a small crevice of the bookshelf. This cat can also be around referencing books to children or even adults in a small world of literary fun! (The cat’s name will be Chester in this artwork)
Referencing the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. He is always disappearing and appearing at a hidden corner.
Exploring lightworks together with acrylic cut-outs of my imaginary cat illustrations? Perhaps will also work out some sensory-timed light-ups that pop up at some corners or even bookshelves?
Links for cuteness and references to how the story came about:
