Go Together
2022, 'Shaking Land and Water' at Jendela, Esplanade-Theatres on the bay, Singapore 4-pieces sculpture, Galvanised steel pipe, steel round bar, wood, plywood Installation view at Jendela, 2022
Drawing upon my background in architecture, consistent in the works are repetitions and grids reminiscent of scaffolding structures erected during building construction or maintenance, which I have abstracted into patterned forms. Through my horizontal and vertical sequences, I also contemplated the connections of power, hierarchy and the repeated tendencies of human behaviour in Glimpse .
Attached to the steel sculpture is a wood plate from a local town. Their warmth colour helps reduce the expression of industrialism. Along the line, the warm red colour of the wood may evoke a sense of familiarity and comfort associated with the village, while the cold, hard steel represents the new and unfamiliar. It somehow represents progress of change. These materials are often associated with construction, and can also be seen as cold and impersonal. As people living close to each other as in one line by the river as the sculpture depicted, it emphasises the destruction or impact that applies to the whole things within the structure, or a group of people in a community or village. Those steel pieces depicted an image of many houses that are covered up by a steel wall around them, expressing the living condition during development. They appear as systematically arranged hints at the governing system that imply an existing local. Under construction 1, I use steel as a drawing line in a three-dimensional picture. What I construct is my visualisation of action and movement. On the top layer of the sculpture, the small steel is shaped like a roof lifted from the ground.