In Place
The series was started as a series of semester-end school assignment submissions for figure-drawing and figure-painting classes in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
In Place is intended to be a self-portrait, painted in 3 versions for various purposes, at various points in my life. An incident with a classmate causing a sense of violation of values and love for art turned into inspiration for the series The Gallery. The Gallery expresses what I value when I experience another artwork and fall in love with it: some works free the mind and/or end an emotional entrapment; some works spill into the realm of reality and some works, while appearing to be unpleasant, provoke the mind - they "comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable".
I have created, and afterward abandon a version of The Gallery with clothed figures. Nudity, according to this exploration has become for me a symbol of timelessness. Going against the grain of post-structuralist temporal artworks, painting and sculpture had become that which resists the temporal and seeks the permanent.
In Place is intended to be a self-portrait, painted in 3 versions for various purposes, at various points in my life. An incident with a classmate causing a sense of violation of values and love for art turned into inspiration for the series The Gallery. The Gallery expresses what I value when I experience another artwork and fall in love with it: some works free the mind and/or end an emotional entrapment; some works spill into the realm of reality and some works, while appearing to be unpleasant, provoke the mind - they "comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable".
I have created, and afterward abandon a version of The Gallery with clothed figures. Nudity, according to this exploration has become for me a symbol of timelessness. Going against the grain of post-structuralist temporal artworks, painting and sculpture had become that which resists the temporal and seeks the permanent.
