'Art and Loss' at the M1 Fringe Festival

What does loss mean to you?
The photographs in How Loneliness Goes were made during my dad’s battle with terminal cancer, and soon after his passing. You could say that the work was a means of coping as well as a manifestation of my state of mind at the time.

How does your work express loss?
A mood of void and absence is pervasive, as expressed in the faces or stances of my subjects and personified in the depictions of architecture. Everyone in the photos appears to be in mourning, and the vacant spaces seem as though they are populated by ghosts.

What is the message of your work?
Despite the elegiac subject matter of the exhibition, it shouldn’t be difficult to locate beauty in each of its individual photographs.

What does loss mean to you?
I do not know. That is what it means to me. How does your work express loss? The Malay Man and His Chinese Father celebrates the ideas of need, desire, wanting and longing. It’s not to express, but to examine and understand the idea of loss.

What is the message of your work?
Truly enjoy sex when you are aware of it.

What does loss mean to you?
The text that I am working with, From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew, is full of losses, some obvious, others less so. Part of my interest in doing this Mambo work is to invite my performers to see what we’ve lost in that story.

How does your work express loss?
I’m working with performers who are performing lines of text without speaking. They will move, even dance, but they won’t have the ability to speak.

What is the message of your work?
I don’t want to be part of a party that I can’t Mambo dance to.