Wei Leng Tay, 3 Nam Lock Street, Singapore (no.6), 2024, Hand-sanded archival pigment print, 42.0 x 59.4cm, Edition 1 of 2 plus 1 AP. Image courtesy of the artist.
"Artist and photographer Wei Leng Tay—whose family migrated from China to Malaya to multicultural Singapore—understands photography's limitations in transmitting an accurate portrayal of identity and history.
Exploring this partial Chinese identity and the fallibility of human recollection, her work often uses formal strategies such as abstraction, layering, and fragmentation to reflect on how images are made and to call attention to what is omitted.
At Yeo Workshop, the artist's recent photographic prints and installations build on her interests in migrant communities and photography's ability to accurately convey the past. Works on view draw on her family archives to reflect on Singaporean society today."
