A Swarmer’s Epiphany
2026
Resin, aluminium, UV print on cellulose acetate
1.8 x 0.8 x 0.5cm
10:33 min
“If I recall right, it stated that a moment cannot be defined by the everyday, nor can it be defined by what is exceptional and external to the everyday. That a moment gives shape to ordinary life, but taken on by itself, it becomes empty. I didn’t fully understand it. I suppose the moment does not appear simply anywhere at just any time, and that meaning only exists because of everything surrounding it. It is like a festival. It only makes sense when its brilliance lights up the sad hinterland of everyday dullness, and it disappears when used up. The everyday cannot be reduced to 'empty moments', They place themselves apart from everyday life; or rather, they try to live apart, and this is precisely how they miscarry, in all their splendour. Thus, moments present themselves as duplicates of everyday life, magnified to tragic dimensions.”
Excerpt from the audio monologue of A Swarmer's Epiphany.
2026
Resin, aluminium, UV print on cellulose acetate
1.8 x 0.8 x 0.5cm
10:33 min
“If I recall right, it stated that a moment cannot be defined by the everyday, nor can it be defined by what is exceptional and external to the everyday. That a moment gives shape to ordinary life, but taken on by itself, it becomes empty. I didn’t fully understand it. I suppose the moment does not appear simply anywhere at just any time, and that meaning only exists because of everything surrounding it. It is like a festival. It only makes sense when its brilliance lights up the sad hinterland of everyday dullness, and it disappears when used up. The everyday cannot be reduced to 'empty moments', They place themselves apart from everyday life; or rather, they try to live apart, and this is precisely how they miscarry, in all their splendour. Thus, moments present themselves as duplicates of everyday life, magnified to tragic dimensions.”
Excerpt from the audio monologue of A Swarmer's Epiphany.
Shown as part of Reflections at Esplanade, Singapore
Photograph documentatation by Toni Cuhadi
Image courtesy of Esplanade Singapore
Photograph documentatation by Toni Cuhadi
Image courtesy of Esplanade Singapore