The Prestige: Nur/Iman
2026
The Prestige ruminates upon the acceleration of seeing, where images circulate faster than meaning can settle.
Through analog photography (photograms), the work favours Nur (light) and Iman (faith) as physical (photographic illumination) and metaphysical (enlightenment) figure– a conduit of truth that sanctifies the overlooked such as stones, sand and soil. These materials act as agents in this onto-epistemological study.
The work is further informed by the treatment of light and dark under the tension of time as a structural condition for re-reading forms and image.
In resisting immediacy, The Prestige presents itself in obscurity by dissolving Being into earthbound matter.
Truth has focus.
Focus is vision.
Vision is meaning.
Meaning is historical.
Being-Longing: The Precursor To A Serious Change
2025
Being-Longing is a body of work which documents the quiet shift between roots and new horizons, unveiling aloof series of images of the artist's experience in a foreign land. Drawing upon these wandering moments, the artist has to confront his ritualistic everyday while holding onto the universe's rhythm where belonging like meaning, remains fluid.
This has led the artist to employ poetry as a form of supplication. The texts are quiet whispers (al-munajat) externalised into a performance piece, reflecting on the poignant conversations with the Divine.
Becoming: On Introspection and Oscillation
2024
Site-responsive activity of displacing objects in familiar and unfamiliar space, oscillating between play and sincerity, adopting a metamodern framework as an instrument of thought.
Mono-Povera 2021
The mundane is often overlooked yet it constructed within our daily experiences. This project attempts to look at things in different perspectives as a resistance against mundanity. The artist wanted to touch on simplicity against commercialisation and human nature towards lavish lifestyle. An investigation of life as a kind of playground of meaning that at a moment unites and crumbles the next.
The work is achieved by bringing ‘things’ together, in its unaltered state, permitting the materials to represent themselves through selective arrangements. Objects presented are ‘rearranged’ into works of art, causing to notice the associated connections between these ‘things’ and the space it inhabits.
Cosmics Dimensionality
2020
Cosmics Dimensionality is a proposed public art installation which draws inspiration from the formation of Fort Canning's Twin Cupolas and the quiet and contemplative nature of the space. Comprising of twenty-four spheres that metaphorically orbits a correspondingly dome-like structure, the appearance is mundane yet holds greater meaning within. Its dome-like structure holds as a resting place and goes about as a place of chance and memory-making.
sleeping bodies
2019
sleeping bodies focused on the importance of sleep, and the lack thereof. The artist engaged in a collaborative performance to create a dialogue between the physical presence and space through the sleeping bodies. Conceptually this work comments on the phenomenon of napping in unfamiliar spaces within the institution as a commentary on the mental and emotional struggle within students in relation to their academic pursuit, which was also in conjunction with the Mental Health Month of October.