How do I remember you (2021)

What happens when a street disappears? What if its name is no longer uttered; no longer of use? What remains? What exactly is lost? How will I remember you is a text installation that invites viewers to reflect on these questions.

The installation presents 17 street names in Pasir Ris that have been expunged and removed from the street directory over the years. Like many other estates across the island, Pasir Ris has witnessed its share of re-roading and land transformation. Moving beyond the act of presenting these names to invoke nostalgia, or to impose a shared collective memory, this new work seeks to prompt the viewer to consider how we might construct and retain personal memories. How might we remember streets, places, people when the traces we rely on for remembering, such as their names, are themselves no longer uttered, no longer of use?