Normalcy
2020

Blu Tack, muslin cloth
Installation of 5 sheets, dimensions variable
The work is part of the group exhibition ‘flat’, curated by Louis Ho, at Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore 

In this work, sheets of white tack are laid out in a grid format on the ground and overlaid with common, multi-purpose muslin cloth, its pristine palette mimicking, and almost indistinguishable against the actual floor beneath, a reality underfoot that is rarely given consideration in the rush of the everyday. This alternative materiality channels the disquiet resulting from the situation of contingency that marks Singapore’s circuit breaker measures. In this time of the pandemic, we are forced into a condition of the makeshift — creating spaces we call our own, perhaps for a sense of home, a sense of comfort, a sense of productivity. We condition ourselves to be content in this compromise, until normalcy can once again resurface. Yet, something more aggressive is occluded by the seemingly innocuous material: over time, the tack melds with the surface of the floor, rigidity and inertia slowly setting in, hinting at our possible, eventual inadequacy for normalcy.

View the online exhibition here.