My works have always been naturally drawn to the past to reminisce, on my way back to the past, I’m incomplete, those relics I investigated they’re likely disintegrated, destroyed, or even desolate. Those never end swept away and transformation have evoked a sense of melancholy. Those tangible relics including subjects culture heritage, ruin, artefact and craftsmanship all date back to an ancient time channeling me to escape from the present, within which, ruin has spoken the most loudly to me. Ruin is an area of juridical suspension, exisiting after before written the traumas on the face, waiting its verdiction to come one day, as Alessandro said “There has to be a moment when even consumed wreckage sinks away, disappearing from view”. (Argentesi, 2023). The Ruins as if exist within those suspended moments.
Those suspended moments make what had been exhausted in the area more explicit and memorable even though they fail to conform to reality.
The sense of ritual that is attached to the layout of the residential environments has been diluted even disrupted as the old residences demolished. Inherent customs of living are constantly forced to challenge and adapt. Grandma has been lost her front yard since 15 years ago where she
had have my whole childhood summer evenings spent with us neighbours, and a communal terrace for those who lived in the compound to dry out their laundry. “...People shrink emotionally and physically-but you shall never take for granted what those who remain do with what they have around them” (Argentesi, 2023).
A city's scar is the extension of the past. A scar that could never be truly healed seamlessly but to be acknowledged.
Last Words Of The Dust I: Beautiful River Street
2024
88 x 70 x 72cm
Calico, paper, plaster, off-cut fabric,
water-based pigment and fabric hardening.
Installation View
An exhibition curated by The Daughters United
presented by Nine Point Eight Charity in Broadwick Studio, Canary Wharf.
Installation View 2
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