Past & Present Lives of ______ (2019)

Past & Present Lives of _______ sees self-portrait artist Nor, recreating visions of their own past lives. These visions are imagined through re-locating women of the Nusantara/Malay archipelago that may have been forgotten but still resonant within recesses of collective memory.

Mediating the past through both video and performances via their transgender body, they position themselves within history that is “tersirat”, or hidden in plain sight.

Past & Present Lives of ______ was exhibited at the NTU School of Art, Design & Media Grad Show in 2019, and have also gone on to exhibit as part of MAT and the Image Forum Film Festival in Tokyo.