artist
Dog Days, HARTA, Selangor
1 - 20 August 2024
Dog Days is about the black dog as a metaphor for depression. I have chosen to depict instances of peculiar canine behaviour that I have observed in my own dog as a way of exploring what ‘strangeness’ means. Filtered through the lens of human expectation, the strangeness of a dog may simply point to the parts of its existence that have been lost in translation. This is perhaps true of the experience of depression as well – strangeness, as taken to mean unexpected, rather than unnatural or abnormal.
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Curated by Studio Sayang
Dog/Walk, 2024
exhibited as part of Dog Days @ HARTA, Selangor
1 - 20 August 2024
Dog/Walk is an extension to the oil and paper collage work Needs Must. This project documents the ways in which the black dog has existed and continues to exist in my life - in the guise of the pet dog I live with, as well as the one that resides in my head. I photographed each individual collage panel comprising Needs Must in specific locations from my past and present. These locations, spanning three countries and four cities, were chosen for being places where I have encountered the black dog, in its literal or otherwise metaphorical form.
