Unintended Vessels



Installation view of Unintended Vessels exhibited in Bad Imitation at Tanjong Pagar Distri-park.




Hoarded pink Valentine bears packed with exposed limbs (strange lovers) (unusual guttural romance for a packed memory)
, 2022. Plastic storage container, stuff toys and adhesive. 


Hoarded pink Valentine bears packed with exposed limbs (strange lovers) (unusual guttural romance for a packed memory)
, 2022. Plastic storage container, stuff toys and adhesive. Detail image.

Garfield's packed orderly in a storage box (In some attempt to preserve 90’s nostalgia) (False equivalence), 2022. Plastic storage container, stuff toys and adhesive.


Garfield's packed orderly in a storage box (In some attempt to preserve 90’s nostalgia) (False equivalence), 2022. Plastic storage container, stuff toys and adhesive. Detail image.


Installation view.


Just the edge; a box packed with roughly white coloured clothes. (Memories can be encoded irregularly) (Bad memories are lightly coloured), 2022. Plastic storage box, clothes and adhesive. Detail image.


Just the edge; a box packed with roughly white coloured clothes. (Memories can be encoded irregularly) (Bad memories are lightly coloured)
, 2022. Plastic storage box, clothes and adhesive.


A single plastic storage box filled with blue clothes cut into equal halves. (A division of emotional baggage) (Same memory remembered differently, twice)
, 2022. Plastic storage box, clothes and adhesive.


A thin slice of a plastic storage box that is seemingly colour co-ordinated, badly. (If only memories could be excavated like geologies) (Latent memories receding into the background)
, 2022. Plastic storage box, clothes and adhesive.


A thin slice of a plastic storage box that is seemingly colour co-ordinated, badly. (If only memories could be excavated like geologies) (Latent memories receding into the background), 2022. Plastic storage box, clothes and adhesive. Detail image. 

Identical unpacked clothes, thrice fold. (An echo of the past, reverberating) (The inability to forget), 2022. Clothes, acrylic, thread and adhesive. Installation view.



Identical unpacked clothes, thrice fold. (An echo of the past, reverberating) (The inability to forget), 2022. Clothes, acrylic, thread and adhesive. Installation view.

All photography by Marvin Tang.