Abstract
Somewhere Else is a site-dependent, video, sound installation. Captivated by memory, landscape and time and how they affect both the physical and psychological, I construct my artwork to reflect the liminal in-between. This artwork consists of fragments of recollections of the different places, landscape, moments and locations from my past. The intermittent, jarring, and distant quality of the sounds and video fill the installation space as well as the viewers’ mental space.
Statement
Place holds immense power. When I am asked, “where are you from,” I find myself fumbling for words to explain myself. I have spent half my life shuttling between multiple countries and cultures, and always had an expiration date on my countless visas. I am an outsider wherever I go. I am always from somewhere else. These experiences have instilled within me a pervasive sense of transience and displacement. When leaving an old place and entering a new one, the memories of the former place linger, which causes a blur between past and present, between a here and a there. I construct and project this fluid and liminal in-between landscape through my work, Somewhere Else.
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