Numerical Citizenship: MY → SG illustrates the
layered deliberations that go into the process of
converting one’s citizenship. The work builds on the
artist’s encounters with renunciation, loss and gain. It oscillates between the personal experiences of
relinquishing their proof of origins and the embrace of another national existence, a new sense of belonging.
Reflecting on the consciousness of the non-rooting
self that spurs contemplations of an identity that
transcends borders.
These dynamisms make tangible the fragility of one’s existence. Through the processes, it delves into stages marked by extreme ambiguities, contradictions and the unknown future of the self - an experience shared by foreigners who have deliberated on changing their citizenship belonging.