Towards a
New Interior
Text by Grace Hong
Photography by Ang Song Nian
Towards a
New Interior
New Interior
Text by Grace Hong
Photography by Ang Song Nian
What are objects, but erstwhile—landmarks in memory-scapes, obliging receptors for bodily fluids, utilitarian tools, treasure houses, signifiers of money, and garbage? Ang Song Nian’s Towards a New Interior (2012) questions the relationship between objects and ownership, where human interaction is subsumed for interaction with inanimate objects. Comprising images, written accounts, and a real-life site specific installation, the absent human figure smarts against the overflow of objects. In our yearning for more possessions to have and to hold, we have become the dispossessed.
Towards a New Interior (2012). Image courtesy Ang Song Nian.
Towards a New Interior (2012). Image courtesy Ang Song Nian.
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