Shawn Lee Jin Fatt

Trinissha Maya Govinda Rajan

Xue Jia Min

The traditional home setting in which Shawn Lee’s work is displayed compliments the theme of memory and how it may be unreliable. The video is a callback in its presentation to the time when families record precious moments on old video cameras such as handycams. Along with this flavour of presentation came glitches and distortions further selling the idea of how our memories may not be a good retelling of reality. An idea that is strongly present is that one should not be caught up in the past.

Trinissha primarily used paper as a medium to showcase various textures and patterns on paper planes which embodied separate aspects of traditional masculinity and femininity. As part of her planning process, she came up with various conceptions of paper planes, experimenting with the contrasting shapes, silhouettes and materials. She sought to find balance between masculinity and femininity with her final artwork, to demonstrate how they can coexist instead of being at odds with each other, and even work together to enable growth.

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Jia Min's work consists of objects that occupy an immersive space. Viewers are intended to walk through and around the given area and "meet" the different individual pieces. The silhouettes, colours and interactions between the pieces are intended to conjur images as if they had emotions and personalities. Seeing the work is reminiscent of plunging into an exotic new world where the personified pieces act as characters to interact with. The chemistry between the pieces have no shortage of conflict, tension, power disparity and relationships.

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