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 how language and other systems of power shape the spaces subjects may inhabit, the ways they may inhabit them, and the duration for which they are permitted to remain. The gestures of mark-making and removal materialise cycles of production and erasure that destabilise subjectivities under duress in space and time.

Incidentally, these gestures may also be mobilised tactically as strategies of evasion, opacity, or escape from capture.