“Untitled” (The Unbecoming), 2021

In collaboration with UK-based artist Catherine Li, this project was originally conceived for a group show examining how power structures shape and transform public spaces in urban environments. For our response, we created an observational film set in flea markets in both Singapore and the UK, seeking to blur the boundaries between inside and outside. By moving from the centre to the periphery and back, the film renders the distinction between interior and exterior gazes porous.

In my segment, the film focuses on a community of street vendors operating from within a shelter, highlighting the invisible borders embedded in public spaces. It visualises how power structures can engulf the city, while simultaneously showing how people, by inhabiting these spaces, can appropriate, influence, and transform the built environment.