If there is anything tying the past thirteen years of my practice together, it is a persistent pull toward the frictions, residues, and fatigues that gather within cities; the slow accumulation of wear that settles into bodies, spaces, and time.
My gaze turns to what is already there: an anonymous street corner, a failing piece of infrastructure, a routine repeated until it disappears. These everyday entry points allow vague, shifting atmospheres to take form, becoming ways for me to understand alienation, memory, urban change, and how we inhabit the present.
I am a Singaporean artist based between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. My practice spans painting, writing, sculpture, digital media, and performance. As a self-taught painter, painting is my main anchor, but I resist treating it as something fixed. I like to play with it. Works might be hung from ceilings, set in motion, or staged as gestures, such as cosplaying Vincent van Gogh.
But feeling always comes first. I try to avoid over-intellectualising art. I’m interested in depth without condescension; work that can speak equally to a contemporary art curator and a fruit seller by the roadside. After all, sometimes a sunset is simply a sunset.
My work has been exhibited across Asia, including presentations at the National Gallery Singapore, Art Basel Hong Kong, ART SG, and Art Jakarta. It has also taken shape through public commissions, such as a project with the National University of Singapore, and international residencies, most recently at Mas Palou in Spain. In 2016, I received the Silver Award (Established Artist Category) at the UOB Painting of the Year. My works are held in public and private collections globally.
Photograph by Aylin Emanetoğlu.