Synopsis

The Weaver  -installation              (Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre)

This austere installation draws heavily on the Maternity Home history of this Heeren Street site and the most private of trauma, embedded in both memory and body …It is a movie, I know. It is not real, I know. It is Death

Biography

Chinese-Malaysian Minstrel Kuik was born in Pantai Remis, Malaysia in 1976. Due to the racial quota that restricts national university access to native Malaysians, her country ‘exported’ her to Taiwan, like many other Chinese students. After her bachelor’s degree in painting, she emigrated to France, where she had to complete another course in order to enroll at the Arles School of Photography (ENP) from which she would graduate in 2006 with a European Masters degree. Driven by a desire to understand, deconstruct and reinvent the notions of the family home, cultural identity and photographic expression, Kuik bases her work on snapshots she takes of her family, her hometown and the area she lives in. In parallel to her main project “Mer.rily, Mer.rily, Mer.rily, Mer.rily”, which studies the local context and its influence on familial structure, Kuik is also interested in exploring the digital medium with its unique language and esthetic. Apart from Malaysia, she has exhibited in Indonesia, Europe and the United States.