Of two bedrooms (2010-2015)
Various media and dimensions

​I slept on the floor, but in my parents' bedroom, and too often, I noticed my grandmother sleeping.

Of two bedrooms is a series of images about a conversation that never, and couldn't, take place. Based on past traumatic links my grandmother and I had with our own bedrooms, the work tells a story of displacement in the home and how death indelibly alters a long-standing, shared domestic space. Unlike the usual types of photographs that commemorate the family, these confront a loving yet problematic relationship between the two of us, one that was defined largely by a stubborn and repressed sort of dialogue, which in turn formed a lack thereof. Taken before and after my grandmother's passing, the work presently stands at a finite but uncertain juncture. Though objects and rooms have been shifted and redefined, the home is left to adjust to the anticipated but also abrupt departure of a firm presence; one that perhaps cannot be forgotten, and continues to reside and take hold in a new-found, private place.


Featured in the following exhibitions and publications:
2015 The Measure of Your Dwelling: Singapore As Unhomed, ifa-Galerie Berlin, curated by Jason Wee
2013 The Design Society Journal #6: Representation, published by The Design Society, Singapore
2012 Still Building, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, curated by Jason Wee
2012 Microcosmos, Goodman Art Center, curated by Amanda Lee