Siew Guang Hong
 

Both performers are in kneeling position facing the gallery wall, backs turned to the audience. Siew sticks vinyl letters on the gallery floor while Sharma peels them off with his fingers. The stickers repeat the phrase “i am here”.

i have gone reflects on the inscrutable (and often transient) presence of subject-hoods living along the perimeters of constructed normativities. Contextualised with a material often used for gallery wall texts, the gestures of mark-making and removal materialise production and erasure that destabilises subjectivities under duress in space and time. Interestingly, these gestures are also co-opted as strategies to escape from capture.