A Liminal Desire To Exist
2026
Diptych video
1 min 51 sec
2026
Diptych video
1 min 51 sec
More than 1,100 archival floor plans are reworked as speculative and generative architectures set within a corner installation in “The Strange Archive”. Removed from their original function as instruments of order, these maps are made strange—reframed and estranged into generative plans. In a city shaped by continual redevelopment, the architectures they describe exist in a prolonged state of limbo, registering the instability of urban form, where spaces are repeatedly erased, revised, and reimagined, and where what once stood lingers only as traces.
Within this latent space, architecture persists as a process rather than a fixed form, occupying the fragile intervals between memory and erasure, knowledge and speculation. The generative AI videos wriggle and vibrate as they are disquietingly set within shelving and presented as fixed knowledge, even as sand flows out from them, unsettling their authority and underscoring the provisional nature of the archive itself.
Exhibited at The Strange Archive, Singapore Art Week 2026, curated by Dr Adrian Tan