Far From Home
Produced over the three years since relocating from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, these works explore what it means to live at a distance: from a place, a former self and even from my own habits as an artist. What began as a physical move has gradually become a shift in how I see, think and make.
Outside the familiar cocoon of Singapore, I have been confronted by new environments and ways of being. These experiences brought my long-standing interest in social questions closer to the surface. Rooted in painting, but never confined to it, my practice has become a space for thinking through society — how we live and what it means to be human — where these concerns can no longer be separated from the act of making.
In the process, I’ve moved away from what once felt certain. Some works wrestle with painting itself, testing and stretching its limits. Yet this distance has also clarified something essential: even as I move further out, I remain anchored to a core, a sense of “home” within the work.
At the same time, distance draws me back. Some works return to my formative years in Singapore, not to reclaim them, but to sit with those moments and trace what has shifted and what has endured. They become a way of examining my own evolution, as both artist and person, within a particular time and place; regarding a younger self with something like a third-person gaze.
Far From Home is ultimately not just about place, but about taking stock of the past three years, and how far I can push my practice. And sometimes, in that search, something unexpected appears: a feeling or atmosphere I’ve been quietly chasing for years, suddenly arrives in
the work.
Works that were never exhibited publicly before:
