This podcast episode is an in conversation with Singapore based artist Wei Leng Tay, Olivier Krischer and Sydney based artist Yvette Hamilton who explore the expanded field of photography in contemporary art.
Working across mediums including photography, audio, installation and video, Wei Leng Tay’s practice focuses on how representation is used in image-making and how difference can be negotiated through perception/reception, and the materiality of photographs. She uses formal strategies in installation, in the relationships between the visual and audio, image and text, and bodily experiences in encounters to question ingrained modes of perception and representation. One of the ongoing topics in Wei Leng’s practice is displacement as a result of movement and migration, focusing on emotional and psychic uneasiness related to ideas of agency, home and belonging. The works begin with the personal, in the realm of the family, and then build to consider ways the personal interacts with society, the state, the geopolitical.
Tay has had numerous solo exhibitions including the 4-part Crossings at NUS Museum, Singapore (2018-2019) and The Other Shore at Australian National University CIW Gallery, Australia (2016). She has collaborated with institutions such as ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan, NTU CCA Singapore and Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore. Her works are in museum collections including those of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, Hong Kong Heritage Museum and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.