Exhibition view. 'Plastic River', an installation of blue construction tarpaulin with shape of the Klang river cut out, covered the entire gallery floor. Lydia's kinetic sculptures sat on top.
Detail of 'Plastic River' by Sharon Chin.
'Paper Moon' by Sharon Chin, 4 panels of ink on paper, soaked in water from the polluted Klang river. Outer two panels: 42cm x 158cm each, Inner two panels: 34cm x 158cm each.
'Moon River' by Sharon Chin, Ceramics discs, each bearing an incision corresponding to a section of the Klang river.
Pull 1 by Lydia Chai, watercolour on paper.
Pulse series by Lydia Chai, Electronic sculptures on the floor and the wall.
Exhibition view.
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A joint exhibition with artist Lydia Chai. We met in art school in New Zealand and became friends. I returned to Kuala Lumpur; Lydia now lives in Auckland.
In this series of drawings, installations and video at 67 Tempinis Gallery, we explored ideas of distance and friendship in relation to artistic collaboration. The result was an invented landscape of two very different artists, living far apart, engaged in conversation with each other and the world around us.
Simon Soon wrote an essay called Callous Conversations: Dialogue in Space, published in this exhibition’s catalogue. You can read that essay here.
