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A little about me, what I've done & what I'm doing
Nicole Phua, based in Singapore, is a performance artist and art educator. In her art practice she engages with the idea of life and death through performative expressions. She was formally trained in Western painting at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore). She has done live performance art in several group exhibitions in Singapore such as ORTHODOX, The Only Paradise Is Paradise Lost, and Wuwei Performance Art Series, as well as several events internationally such as ASIA LIVE! Singapur #4 in Poland (Lublin, Zielona Góra, Białystok), Polyphony: Southeast Asia in Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (Nanjing, China), Making Sense of a Tiger Attack in Studio Batur (Bandung, Indonesia) and Inikah Rasanya...(Neraka) in Komunitas Salihara Arts Centre (Jakarta, Indonesia). She is the founder of a loose collective in Singapore called therightbelief, a platform to showcase contemporary works by young artists.
Her developing series of performances revolves around her take on life and death, living and dying. She believes that these events are all interconnected to religion, culture, and spirituality, and she uses familiar everyday objects and symbolic shapes, enhancing its significance outside of its roots. Her work explores the depths within the physical body, engaging into viewers’ thoughts and beliefs. Using her body as a medium, she aims to build a deeper connection between the viewers and herself through movements and senses. |
