Chelsea Wong, Taking Shape, 2025, Digital Inkjet print, 59.4 x 42 cm

This series of 13 photographs documents a site-specific performance staged within various abandoned buildings. In each space, light poured through ruptures in the structure. There was an attempt to contain the light by tracing its edge using small stones or shells gathered from the site. As one outline was complete, the light had already shifted. Consequently the stones and shells had to be repositioned either following the edge of the light or anticipating its next location in an attempt to 'trap' the light. This process serves as a metaphor for the instability of existence within liminal spaces. Just as the light continually escapes containment, so too does the individual shift in and out of legibility within institutional systems – where identity is subject to erasure or redefinition. The work reflects on the experience of those who exist in social or legal limbo. Like the fleeting patch of light, these individuals appear, disappear, and reappear in contested or non-sanctioned spaces.