After The Body uses absence, rupture and repair as material languages to reflect my experience of growing up in an immigrant family, where my relationship to home was one of continual negotiation. Based on a family photograph of my ancestors, the figures have been cut away, leaving their presence to be felt through absence. Floral motifs, informed by Singaporean batik, surround the void, weaving together family history and cultural inheritance.

The cutting, stitching, and repair of the canvas create an unstable, fractured surface that evokes the threshold spaces of migration, where identity is shaped through cultural collision and inherited memory. The unstretched canvas retains the softness and drape of cloth, bringing the work closer to textile traditions and reflecting my broader interest in craft, repair, and the ways materials can carry memory

‘After The Body’, 2026, Acrylic and oil on unstretched canvas, embroidery thread

235cm x 145cm

Photography by Studio Reverse Magic and Yang-En Hume