Siew Guang Hong
 

The site-specific work consists of stickers that depict life-sized houseflies scattered around exhibition spaces. These flies are in fact digital collages of the artist’s hands and feet, though this is not immediately noticeable due to the scale of each sticker; each of which give the illusion of real flies that have entered the exhibition area.

The work is an amalgamation of Siew’s explorations into queer identity politics and ecology; at once interrogating the cultural signification of the housefly as an irritating pest despite its ecological importance, while also experimenting with contingent formats of how the work is shaped, multiplied or reduced in different spaces—not dissimilar to the contingency associated with queer livelihoods and placemaking.