While remediating the past, these photo works call upon deeper reflection on the values that are associated with our own ways of seeing — how we look back upon ourselves might also be a mode of looking forward.
View From This Side is the final and new segment of a constellation of works that artist Wei Leng Tay started in 2019. Developed from a bag of family slides dated between the late 1960s and 70s, these slides, on one hand, reveal a coming-of-age, charting her parents’ migratory path through Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore. On the other hand, through the artist’s reprocessing and abstracting of these images, she expands upon the codes of meaning that are embedded within them. As a result, multiple ways of looking and remembering are opened up. While remediating the past, these photo works call upon deeper reflection on the values that are associated with our own ways of seeing — how we look back upon ourselves might also be a mode of looking forward.
