FIGURES OF LONGING

RIFQI AMIRUL ROSLI

FIGURES OF LONGING (2019)

Figures of Longing take on the form of the departed soul travelling through transitional space - purgatory. In reality, this process is similar to when one travels. The process of travelling involves three points, a departure, a transit and a destination. The work attempts to make parallels with these two planes to imagine a speculative space and the uncertainties of these non-places.

Exhibited at Exit Pursued by a Bear - BA(Hons)Fine Art Graduation Show

Arrivals, Departures
2019
Wood, Metal, Clay, Latex, HDTV, Colour, Sound, PVC Print, Monoprint, Paper
Dimension Variable

In Limbo
2019
Monoprint and Pigment on Paper
40 X 70 cm

Shrouds I
2019
Monoprint and Pigment on Paper
40 X 70 cm

Shrouds II
2019
Monoprint and Pigment on Paper
40 X 70 cm

Shrouds III
2019
Monoprint and Pigment on Paper
40 X 70 cm

Rifqi Amirul Rosli is an artist in Singapore whose works often deals with the in-between of things: states of suspension, transition, liminality. He probes into the construction of personal boundaries and speculative states that defines one’s purpose and sentimentality towards a place. He describes the personal connection one has to a physical, or an imagined place, which may not necessarily be a typical home, but could relate to a sense of familiarity, a tradition or a regular activity that becomes a part of one’s identity.