Do you think your work is inspired by Malaysia?

To be honest, no. As I said before, Malaysia is so diverse and for me it’s kind of crazy to draw inspiration from the whole country to make art. Not all Malaysians are the same, and that’s okay. I am inspired by my upbringing. I am inspired by my relationships with my family, the batik fashion shows my mother used to do, or how my brother and I would create stories when we were children. I am inspired by my relationship with my culture. So it’s very personal. I’m not trying to represent an entire people, but a particular moment in my history, my past, and my present.

What are you working on now?

I am working on a project with the theme of memory. I’m obsessed with this particular phrase, memory fabrication. How memories change over time, and how each time you remember something, it begins to become distorted and move away from its original context and reality. I am creating a series of performance pieces using archived video clips that my father recorded of me and my siblings in the early 2000s. Therefore, I create videos very specific to those memories, distort them by adding recently shot videos, and then create new “memories” from old movies.

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