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• On-Going
  • -Stories by the Dying Ember
  • -Double Dream Hotel
  • -Transmission
  • -Blue Trees, Black Fruits
  • -Enlarged Nerves
  • -The Retrograde
  • -A Curved Wall
  • -Shapes and Shadows

• Projects
  • 2020
    • -Strange Things
  • 2019
    • -We Hesitate to Wash Ourselves in Muddy Water
    • -Melting! Melting!
  • 2018
    • -Tom, Dick, and Harry
    • -Cinema Surrogate #3
    • -The Body and the Seed
  • 2017
    • -Aperture
    • -Suppose, There is A
    • -The Genius of the Crowd
  • 2016
    • -Cinema Surrogate #2
    • -Peninsular Session #1
    • -Klaus
    • -Covert Overt
    • -State of Motion
  • 2015
    • -Dog and Butterfly
    • -OH! Joo Chiat
    • -Closest, Softest Thing
    • -Clean (aka Mike's Car Wash)
  • 2014
    • -Blind
    • -The Beach that Never Was
  • 2013
    • -Motherland
    • -This Place is Elbow Deep
    • -Arrival Reception
  • 2012
    • -Welcome Door Mat
    • -Artist Door at 45 Degree
    • -Pulau Ubin Residency
  • 2011
    • -Bench and Pebble
    • -Chair on the Staircase
    • -Swimmer
  • 2010
    • -Room 2
  • 2009
    • -Truism Near a Water Fountain
    • -Three Sculptures
  • 2008
    • -Horizon, or Do Fish Drink Water?
  • 2005
    • -Fresh Veg

Black Pebble (2011) and Bench (2011), are two separate pieces, but born out of the same vein in which the artist deals with issues of the dream in the context of human ergonomics. In the photography piece a black pebble is inserted under a mattress, depicting an uncomfortable sleeping situation. The state of sleeping has the potential of being disrupted by the physical intrusion of a pebble, not unlike having a tiny rock in one’s shoe.

In the sculptural work, Bench, a slight physical change has occurred to a typical piece of furniture. The (un)combination of the slanted form and the rigid square-ness of the ceramic titles results in a disharmonious state.

The two works were shown in the group exhibition Dream: Borderlands and Other Territories. Artists in the exhibition includes: Debbie Ding, Zai Tang, Mark Thia, Bruce Quek, Elizabeth Lim, Kai Lam, Yuzuru Maeda, Mark Wong, Chun Kai Qun, Joo Choon Lin.