Haven Kitchen

Video installation

A collaboration with Farizi Noorfauzi as part of Fated, Love, Sky, Singapore Art Week 2022

The video segment of the work was also present in Dubai as part of the Expo City 2022 Dubai, Singapore Pavilion.

A Heaviness, Passing

A group exhibition curated by Moses Tan, featuring artists Eric Lim, Firdaus Sani (Orang Laut SG), Irfan Kasban, Michelle Tan, Nalalina Pereira, Nelly Tan, Susanna Tan, Susie Wong, Ruby Jayaseelan.

A heaviness, passing is a group show looking at various ideas of grief and mourning. From personal notions of heartbreak to collective, communal modes of grief, the show premises on re- thinking these affects and centering them in acts of healing.

“When we talk about self-care, self-defence, and self-preservation, we need to talk not about overcoming our feelings of grief but allowing them, making room for them.”

In Rebellious Mourning edited by Cindy Milstein, they make suggestions on different modes of dealing with grief. One of these is the acknowledgement of mourning which can be read as a resistance against formalised ideas of positivity. How can we also make space for these acts of grief to manifest, and allow for other forms of healing?

A heaviness, passing proposes different modes of engaging with various translations, from artistic to archival, from performative to transient, and ranges from personal loss, to the disavowal of desire and to the collective loss of home. The show proposes affective means of taking time to engage with emotional heaviness, working through the motions and emotions before it slowly, quietly passes.

Love Notes for the Bereaved
Text installation