^{︎︎︎Installation view, Thesis Exhibition.}


research notes (extract): 

Kobena Mercer delved into the formal position of strangers to dismiss the excessive and unmediated use of “the other” as an empty synonym for cultural differences. Mercer quoted an article of Georg Simmel, which described strangers not as the wanderers who come today and go tomorrow. The stranger is who comes today and stays tomorrow one who stays long enough to synergise nearness and distance. The objectivity of strangers gives rise to new relationships of adjacency, but free of the commitment of friendships is generative position of strangers is what this work perceives as neighbours.

“Neighbours” aren’t without baggage. The accent we speak, the food we eat, the way we care about ourselves, the bed-time tales that we are reminiscent of again and again every night. These specificities often are our secret routes to revisit our origin, to what brought us here, resistance or ambition. Nevertheless, these gestures are also the threshold to visit each other’s world. The form of a threshold inherently comprises boundaries. So we learn to be careful. Appropriation is not nice, though approximation is often a way of learning. Increasingly, we are walking on a tangent...






^{︎︎︎Film stills.}