An old tree collapsed near the artist's residential estate in Singapore after a storm. The tree was cut into sections by park authority officials and quickly removed. This is in marked contrast to what happens when a tree falls in a forest. The fallen tree begins a cycle of succession where insects and other plant life feed on the rotting trunk. In a city, a tree loses its value the moment it falls. There is no place for a dead tree.

The physical cuts by which the tree is sectioned echo but do not exactly correspond to how the artist has edited and sequenced the images, suggesting that there might be different ways to "managing" nature, whether via park authorities or art.

 

 

Commissioned by The Jakarta Biennale, 2018. For more information click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Installation Views, Trying to Remember a Tree III, The World will Surely Collapse, 2017.

Commissioned by The Jakarta Biennale, 2018. For more information click here.

 

Detail. Trying to remember a tree III, The World will surely collapse, 2017