In-Between Places and Spaces is a site-specific video installation. In this work, drawings grounded in architectural structures are projected into physical space. The physical location is interjected with the structural forms for a set duration, creating a new temporary space. The changing images reflect on the temporariness of our relationship with spaces due to urban renewal, moving, and migration. 

 

Drawing is used as a thinking process to explore the fragmentation of memory. It is a site of inquiry for distorted memories to take shape. Through drawing, mental images (i.e memory) are translated to optical images (i.e projections, drawings). Architectural structures recur in my work, the images are simplified to their core forms of three-dimensional boxes, lines, shapes. The moving images string together the distorted memories of different locations, creating a projected space that is temporary and fleeting. 

 

The images move through different corners to the physical space, disorienting the viewer and only give away glimpses of details that are specific to the apartment. Symbols like the window and door,  common to every interior space, highlight the interiority of the space. The images vary in their complexity, ultimately creating a sense of being trapped inside the space and inside the images. 

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The repetition of the simplified forms not only points to the commonality between all interior spaces, but it also highlights the cage-like nature of these spaces. Drawing reference from Francis Bacon’s paintings which use simplified geometric forms to frame the figure and create a psychological space, my work takes out the painted figure and places the viewer there instead. The simplification of the form and its lack of specificity evokes the contradiction of familiarity and unfamiliarity aspects of interiority. The lack of specificity of these images creates an in-between space that can relate to any geographical or temporal location that comes to life through the moving images. These images are projected onto a specific space, namely, my apartment, which further complicates the narrative of temporariness and specificity. 

 

Through the exploration of the in-between memory-space, the work seeks to reflect on the interior space as both a source of refuge and imprisonment, familiarity and unfamiliarity; and the notion of home as an impermanent and fluid memory.