Jangka (expectations)

Abstract

The word jangka in Malay has a dual meaning: a duration of time, or to expect. As the title of this work, it encapsulates the artist’s experience growing up in Singapore as a person of mixed ethnicities, and his experience navigating the expectations that come with each of his ethnic roots. An autoethnographic exploration, the project follows images that allude to moments in the artist’s life when he has felt that he has not lived up to the expectations of who he is expected to be as a Malay-Chinese Muslim member within his own family and in Singapore, and confronts his repressed guilt towards these expectations.