Ten-to-Two (2025)

The Complex, June 2025

Ten-to-Two evolved around our increasingly noisy world, where silence has become a rare and precious commodity. We seek it out, pay for it; booking silent retreats, investing in noise-canceling headphones, reserving seats in the quiet zone of the train. Once a natural part of life, silence is now a luxury.  

This exhibition explored what silence looks like in a society that never stops speaking. Through photography and video, it invited you to pause, reflect, and rediscover the look of stillness.

I was very focused on how visitors would experience the gallery space during the exhibition. I built a wall and presented an image of a statue I took in the Louvre, a calm image cropped to hide any face of the said statue This served as a way of drawing viewers in, encouraging them to come closer and engage with the smaller colour photographs, which were deliberately chosen to contrast with the monotone background.

As visitors turned around, they encountered a large black-and-white photograph and behind them, a seven-minute video (Storm, 2025) played on an old monitor commonly used in the past in train stations and public spaces.