A friendly distance (Penang)
2023
Archival inkjet print
60cm x 40cm
A friendly distance (Singapore)
2023
Archival inkjet print
60cm x 40cm
The exhibition opens with two people in an infinity pool overlooking a dense urban scape expanded through vast areas of reclaimed land; and closes with an image of the backs of another two people sitting side by side with a young tree nestled in between, overlooking a newly reclaimed site that is yet to be developed.
This powerful duality of the artwork is an expression of ambivalence – the sense of remorse and longing for a culture that is heading towards an alternative one; and the grasping at the tail end of an increasingly obsolete past.