Kim Feng Cheong

Kim Feng Cheong creates photographic and installation works regarding the liminality of diaspora, connection to country, cultural-national identity, and relational aesthetics.

Diasporic people exist in a shifting and unstable positionality between the social spaces of their motherland and current location. This is especially so for double-diaspora: when they live in a 3rd location, elements of their heritage are often invisible to others.

Antara assembles markers of Malaysian cultural-national identity, including heritage, locations, food, language, and sound. Through multi-sensory avenues, Kim Feng Cheong's cultural-national identity is impossible to be unnoticed by the audience, who would otherwise likely assume the artist to only have direct Chinese heritage.

Antara also attempts to demonstrate and compare tendencies of western and non-western audiences' interactions with non-western artists' art, such as willingness and effort to engage with cultures and languages beyond one's own. The gallery space, invigilators, and audience are thus made part of the work.