Portfolio
Exploring and depicting the mundane that are simple and have been there to remind us about giving the equal importance.
Hug
2019
Embriodery on Fabrics, Pillows
300 x 400 x 50cm
Touch is a sense most often overlooked, and because of this, so are the textures or surfaces in our surroundings. Visitors are invited to touch and feel the object themselves, without any preconceived notions. These are the commonplace object we are used to seeing and interacting with and yet we "experience" them less and less. We take them for granted. This installation is both an invitation and a reminder by the artist for us to slow down our pace, and pay equal attention to the objects and the people in our surroundings and in our lives.
The Relationship
2019
Digital printing on card and videography
18.5cm x 8.5cm x 9 // 10mins 40secs
Documentation of the artist's life within a month, and interpretation of the relationships among the artist, Klang River and LRT Kelana Jaya line.
Boundary
2019
449 x 370 cm
Acrylic on Plywood
I adopt the diversity of the floor tiles in a space that I found in everyday life. Floor is the surface that is close to human being where we step on it all the time. The variety of the design and the type of the floor tiles that appear in a space in the everyday life is the inspiration of this work.
My work explores the boundaries and traces in a space and time. In my exploration with the surrounding, I found that different kind of floor tiles design are the segmentation of a space. The purpose of flooring is to provide a smooth, clean and durable walking surface. Floor tiles in different designs, patterns and textures can create an attractive look for a space. In my opinion, different floor tiles design is to create the boundary. For example, each of the shop in a mall or the corridor of the shop lot has different floor tiles design to create a boundary to show that every shop is different.
This is a site-specific installation work in a gallery which invite public to interactive with the artwork. I create different floor tiles design that appear in the surrounding. The painted plywood floor tiles cover up the floor of the space. Viewers are breaking the boundaries by walking on the different floor tiles in a space. The traces of the public walking on the boundaries will be collected as well. This is a documentation of the relationship between the public and the boundaries. Besides breaking the visible boundaries, public are breaking the boundaries with the artwork as well where there is a ‘Do not touch the artwork’ rule in every gallery and museum.
Traces
2017
12" x 120"/ 12" x 8" x 7
Inject Printing on Latex Canvas
My work explores the traces created by human being, and this work record the traces of mine in seven days. I capture the arrangement of my food in the refrigerator for seven days. Each piece record the situation of the food of each day. The food itself also portrays one’s preference.
The work also explores the time in a space. The situation of the food acts as the traces of the time, and the cycle is time and again occurs in this space.
Textured Painting Works
This series of textures are the small part of a whole thing. I magnify the textures on the old walls of the buildings in Old Town Ipoh. There are presence without existence due to our overlooked or ignorance/take things for granted. We tend to see the bigger picture of things but overlooked the little details that make up the whole. This condition can be seen where the tourists are so used to take the pictures of the buildings in Old Town Ipoh but most of them never discover the history that make up the buildings. I like the textures on the old wall recorded the time or history about the buildings.
30 Different People
2017
Marks and Stains on Mugs
85.5 x 150 cm
I highlighted the subject matter about our numbness to the marks and textures in our surrounding by collecting stains in and out of a mug. The stains were collected by requesting the volunteers to use the mugs given to them for two months. The stains of their drinks were accumulated in and out the mugs over time. They were also requested to keep the stains of their last beverage at the end of this project.
This project creates a communication and a chance for them to observe and discover the existence of the marks that we usually overlooked. The mugs record the habits, preference, and incidents of all the volunteers. The textures of the marks are different due to many factors, it depends on the types of beverages they take, the time taken to finish, how often they use the mugs and so on.
I consider the visual textures of the stains are the abstract paintings in our everyday life which we see but do not feel. The presentation of the work adopts the situation of our everyday life i.e. hanging the mugs orderly in the kitchen to magnify the little dispute of our daily lives. The habit of drinking a beverage is a natural process that weakens our awareness towards what surrounds us that creates a sense of numbness. The piece is as if a metaphor on the in and out card punching system in our working environments that we so numb to.
Tactile Sense
2016
Plaster
120 x 120 cm
Sixteen pieces of plaster tiles with different textures on the surfaces form a sculpture work that can interact with by sitting or lying on it. Audiences can have a different experience to awaken the tactile sense. Some of the textures are transferred from the textures of the road, wall, tree barks and others whereas some are created. The textures can be found in urban life. Each tile is 1 x 1 feet and the plaster tiles are arranged into a square.
Break Away
2017
Various Materials on Door Handles
We are so used to touch the flat and smooth textures surface of a door handle and not responsive to it. I did a site-specific work by wrapping various materials such as strings and threads on Dasein’s door handles to explore our sense of touch and ignorance.
The piece allows the audience to interact and touch the work. I consider the most effective way for the audience to have no distance with the work is to allow them to touch the work while opening or closing the doors. As Mikhail Epstein suggested, “touch art can be considered a kind of the body art because, unlike visual and audio art, it excludes any distance between the body and the object.”[1]
The piece is a metaphor to the condition of some of the students studying and learning in the space where they received information without digesting what they received. They are so used and numb to the condition, they need something to evoke their mind just like the work with various materials on the door handle. The piece interrupted their everyday life where it allowed them to stop, observe and think.
[1] Mikhail Epstein. Novoe sektantstvo: tipy religiozno-filosofskikh umonastroenii v Rossii, 1970-80-e gody (New Sectarianism: The Varieties of Religious-Philosophical Consciousness in Russia, the 1970s-1980s) translated from Russian by Eve Adler