Heman Chong
Calendars (2020 – 2096)
The photographs in the calendars gave me a great inspiration and impact. In my interpretation, the spacious public spaces in the photographs reveal the possibility that it will be happened in near future like 2020 according to our social attitude nowadays. The places in the photographs that really attract my attention are those old and tradition places such as old shop, market, and haw par villa. By imagining myself in the future, when I look at those calendars, they would remind me of those memories and stories. As time changes, would those places be abandoned? Would the stories that happened at those places changed? Where would I be? Who would be at those places? Those photographs evoke a lot of thinking and reflection. Also, the artist put a lot of effort on forming the theme and system of the photograph according to the year. As seeing from far, I noticed that there is certain degree of rhythm in visualization, which gave me a feeling of peace and calm.
Tozer Pak (Pak Sheung Chuen)
A Travel Without Visual Experience: Malaysia
Totally impressed and inspired by the way of the artist brings the same visual experience to the audience. As I am a person that not relies on camera or phone camera to document my journey, I strongly believe that the eyes are our best camera, capture everything with our heart and experience. So I am totally agreed with the idea of revealing the habitual compulsion to document rather than to wholly experience in our life or travel journey. However, there is a reminder at the entrance reminds that there is totally black inside but it doesn’t mention that have to activate the flash function of the phone to light up the room. So visitors that miss out the descriptions would be not able to figure out the proper way to experience the installation.