Dak Li Kien, Dak Li Sar

250 × 100 × 150 Cm

Clear Resin & Acetate Sheets

The installation presents a suspended timeline tracing the gradual disintegration of the “pure” self over time, where altered memories and fragmented perception slowly reconstruct identity into a final, permanent state. The portrait shifts between clarity and distortion, reflecting on how ADHD medication could chemically erode, fragment, and permanently distort memory.

In the same way, resin physically alters and obscures the photographic image beneath it. Sections of the self-remain partially lost, dissolved into warped surfaces and fractured transparencies that resist complete recovery. While the work moves toward a more stable identity, it simultaneously reveals the irreversible transformation caused through memory’s deterioration. The self that emerges is no longer what it once was, but a reconstructed presence shaped through loss, fragmentation, and change.