INTER-COMS

RIFQI AMIRUL ROSLI

Inter-com (2018)
Loudhailers, sound
6-7 Mins

Looking into spaces of commute, 'Inter-coms' depicts sounds recorded within a transitional space. Interweaved with manipulated and found sound, it transports the viewer to a speculative, in-between space - purgatory, a space in between heaven and hell where souls are uncomfortable longing for an eternity. The sounds produced by a megaphone, sets an anxious tone, almost siren-like to the already liminal space.

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.