Inescapable

Inescapable is a video featuring a suited man engaged on the phone pacing back and forth - a palpable reference to a busy salaryman. Shot in high-definition, every motion of the figure is counteracted through digital video tracking.

The character appears to be entrapped and caught in stasis within the center of the frame, in which any attempt to progress or escape is futile. The video is devised to quietly mock, and even question the meaning of our desire to accomplish in our flawed everyday life.

Presented at Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts as part of Polyphony: Southeast Asia (2019), under the representation of ‘Your MOTHER Gallery’; Gajah Gallery as part of New Now V: Towards Unlearning (2021); and Mr Lim’s Shop of Visual Treasures as part of Fools (2022).