

Dawn Ng
PERFECT STRANGER, 2020
Commissioned installation at Asian Civilisations Museum
Installation view
Installation view
PERFECT STRANGER is an installation where vast sheets of paper, ebbing with words and gradient hues, lie in parallel synchronicity to form a soft stratosphere of colour. Each sheet emits...
PERFECT STRANGER is an installation where vast sheets of paper, ebbing with words and gradient hues, lie in parallel synchronicity to form a soft stratosphere of colour. Each sheet emits a phosphorescence, arising from a synthesis of shades unique to, and reflective of its script.
This verbose, colour-drenched body of work is a distilled collection of texts, drawn from a daily Q&A project with a stranger, an Israeli psychologist, over a year. It is a fossilized, fleeting exchange between two women from different pasts, presents and futures.
At once, a static yet glimmering vista of shades, the installation is visually emblematic of the irony and balance in binaries and dualities — between the monumental and mundane, stillness and change, materiality and ephemerality, was and is, hello and goodbye.
This verbose, colour-drenched body of work is a distilled collection of texts, drawn from a daily Q&A project with a stranger, an Israeli psychologist, over a year. It is a fossilized, fleeting exchange between two women from different pasts, presents and futures.
At once, a static yet glimmering vista of shades, the installation is visually emblematic of the irony and balance in binaries and dualities — between the monumental and mundane, stillness and change, materiality and ephemerality, was and is, hello and goodbye.
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