EVERYTHING REMINDS ME TO REMEMBER YOU
The title of this body of work is a quote from a poem secretly embroidered on a handkerchief by Bo Ne Kyaw, a political prisoner who died in Rangoon’s most infamous prison, Insein (Burma).
In exile, displacement and longing are triggered by elements in one’s surroundings. The body of work Everything Reminds Me to Remember You explore the space of the in-between.
How is space constructed and how does it affect how we identify with ourselves?
How does a space become an identity and what does it mean to choose an ever shifting space – the Border – as a position through which one experiences the world?
How is the space of the Border- characterised by fragmentation and motion- translated in installation without settling it?
ERRY#1
Moving across spaces sustains the rupture caused by dislocation, in a refusal to let go of ambiguities and grey areas.
Steel, copper, recycled wood and plastic toys, nylon organza printed with varnish and liming solution, 300cmx165cm each.
@: Dreambetweenday , Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
@: Everything Reminds me to Remember You, Monash University, Caulfield campus, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
ERRY#2
A proposition of sculptural exilic optic.
Safe and threatening spaces are contiguous but not concurrent. Light penetrates through the gaps to create an intangible third space, shifting according to the viewer’s position.
Both installations’ soundscapes were created by Kirri Buchler.
