Three-channel video installation, 24:30 mins, 3 editions + 2 AP
Photographic prints, 65.25 x 116 cm, 5 editions + 2 AP [Acquired by Deutsche Bank]
Masks made in collaboration with Baelf Design, variable, 3 editions + 2AP
Installation photo: Matthias Schormann
The Moon is Wet is a 3-channel video installation that centres migrant histories in Singapore, which possesses a techno-nature that blurs the lines between artifice and the real. Through the three characters of the sea goddess Mazu, a Majie, and a contemporary domestic worker, the work looks at the fictions that the city-state has told itself, the unspoken that lies beneath, and the desires that surge through. Through the use of three languages, Cantonese, Hokkien and Indonesian, as well as the intermingling of song, poetry, and dialogue, The Moon is Wet is a call for spectral kinship that frees the imagination and ideas of belonging for those in the margins.
The Moon is Wet was commissioned by Deutsche Bank Art and Culture for the occasion of Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, a solo exhibition presented at PalaisPopulaire as part of the Artist of the Year 2025 prize.
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