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