For artist Ain (Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim)‘s solo show at Blank Canvas in Penang, titled da lama dah, I engaged in an email conversation with the artists, looking into her relationship with family memories, and how she conveyed their intricacy, temporality, and ephemerality through materials such as ash and clay. Printed copies of the […]
As part of the Jakarta Biennale 2021, titled ESOK, I collaborated with curator Grace Samboh to curate an exhibition about crossings: of languages and translation, of migration through plants and via screen, of a perpetually weird state when you are ready to shift and move anytime, yet always eager to dig down for roots. Titled
Pengembara Molek – Cỏ Cắc Cớ – ꦏꦼꦝꦺꦪꦴꦃꦲꦤƖꦩꦸꦮꦒꦸ,: Exhibition Catalog Read More »
For artist Tan Zi Hao‘s solo show at A+ WORKS of ART (6 – 27 July, 2024), titled The Tongue Has No Bones, I contributed an epistolary essay that offers a fictive lens through which one can approach the topics of lingual betrayal, the colonial history of tongues, and nationalist language policy that continue to