Installation:
Lustre Digital C Type Print, framed.
1270mm by 890mm (WxH)
Singapo-ren Love explores Jay Lim's identity as a gay Singaporean man, tracing his experiences of love, intimacy, and belonging through a lens of reflection and resistance. The series sees Lim photograph and re-photograph the intimate moments he shares with family, close friends, and ex-lovers, using the camera to navigate the tensions within these relationships. Taken in spaces familiar to any Singaporean, such as cafe dates, family gatherings, and vacations, the photographs reveal how these environments, familiar within heteronormative scripts, also serve as quiet witnesses to a queer Singaporean life.
The project complicates both the traditional notion of nuclear families as the sole building blocks of society and stereotypical representations of queer identity by highlighting lived experiences that inconvenience dominant narratives of what counts as “Singaporean” and “Queer”.
This photographic archive of quiet queer life points to ways of articulating experiences that exist beyond what is conventionally thought possible in a controlled, censored space.
The series expands into a photobook that incorporates notes, letters, receipts, and memorabilia to provide additional context.
project gallery
photobook flip-through
Handmade Swiss–bound hardcover book. 132 Pages, 200mm by 250mm (WxH), First Edition of 9.