The Weight of Air continues a search for quiet. While I was walking through parts of Iceland, estranged from family and friends on the other side of the world, geologically active landscapes revealed themselves to constitute a living, breathing ecosystem with its own set of rules. I was led to contemplate philosophical questions regarding the relationships between one’s self and one’s environments, and how one lives and loves.
Hidden emotions and thoughts surface, as one attempts to be still.
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Ng Hui Hsien is an artist, writer, and researcher. Her art practice uses photography as a medium to explore themes such as consciousness, the nature of reality, (im)materiality, and interconnectivity; these are sites where the unconscious can find expression, indirectly or otherwise.
Hui Hsien’s work has been internationally exhibited, including a solo exhibition at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography in Iceland. Her limited-edition, hand-stitched artist book The Weight of Air is in both public and private collections, including the New York Public Library, and is one of the featured books in How We See: Photobooks by Women.