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DIAMOND WATER

DIAMOND WATER is a micro-universe of ambiguous corporeal entities who populate a landscape that is as alien as its inhabitants. A brave new world of gender-neutral bodies, free of the impositions of biological, sexed dichotomies - a future that is queerly liberated.

DIAMOND WATER, 2021
Chong Yan Chuah. 蔡崇彦
Malaysian, b. 1992


EDITION:    1AP+3
MEDIUM:    Single-channel video with sound
DIMENSION:    1920x1080p
TIME:    10:00 loop
FRAME:   N/A
SYSTEM:    projector/led screen(150”>), stereo/5.1 speaker
SIGNATURE:   Included. Provided by Artist
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY:    Included. Minted as NFT
Diamond Water is a micro-universe of ambiguous corporeal entities who populate a landscape that is as alien as its inhabitants. Here, the reality of Chuah's world is an abstruse one, premised on numerical formulations. “As a digital artist”, he observes, “I tend to use numbers to build my fictional world. Everything has a certain value and is quantifiable. That contributes to the gestures that I introduce in this piece: zooming, scaling, multiplying.” The iconography of this cosmos is likewise cryptic, with the prevalence of circles - in the form of round lights and metal studs - a private reference to new beginnings, while evidence of an idiosyncratic script is derived from a language that the artist created for a different project that also involved world-building. While there is visible nudity in the work, there are no genitalia on display. The twenty-first century has embraced the dimension of non-binarism and genderqueer identities that are neither exclusively masculine or feminine. Here, Chuah has envisioned a brave new world of gender-neutral bodies, free of the impositions of biological, sexed dichotomies - a future that is queerly liberated.





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