Developed between 2018-2021, the three parts of Abridge reflect a process of introspective, instinctive exploration, in which the artist’s previous work becomes the subject. Abridge probes the materiality of Tay’s process, through photography, video and sound. The central collection of images is a new body of C-type photographic prints made by rephotographing a corpus of images Tay made while living and working in Hong Kong as a professional photographer for over sixteen years from 1999. In that time, the former colony witnessed significant challenges and changes, many of which passed before her lens. Yet her camera also recorded corners of everyday life, liminal and fleeting moments. By reproducing and transforming parts of these images with her mobile phone — sometimes literally holding the slides and contact sheets in one hand, her phone in the other — Tay registers their presence as more than images, as artefacts, and in turn signals her insistent position in the present, echoed in the fluid reflections on their luminous surfaces. There is a sense of the uncanny in a familiar street or crowd, or the gesture of a boy lifting a mask to his face; flashes of collective memory that linger and are refracted through. This process parallels her initial conversations about displacements across time and space, partially recuperating these images and her complex position in this transversal landscape.