BAYANG
(n.) /ba·yang/
1. shadow; the dark shape cast by an object blocking light.
2. reflection: an image seen upon a surface.
3. ghost; the lingering presence of one departed.
4. (fig.) a trace of something no longer fully there.
K. AZRIL ISMAIL
There is a silence inside an archive that is not of its absence. It is the silence of suspension; held mid-breath in another century's gaze, waiting for someone to notice they are still there.
This is where my work begins.
I am an artist based in Malaysia whose practice dwells in the friction between the archive and the presence, between what photography was made to fix, and what it could never quite hold.
