Sarah Lin
(Sarah Ninjawhee)
Spirit Map
Photography, digitized ink illustrations, photoshopDimensions variable, 2021
In Spirit Map, Sarah Ninjawhee presents a memory-scape of her childhood upon visiting the apartment complex she grew up in and had not visited in a decade. The saturated and saccharine colors in Spirit Map combined with the obfuscated words suggest a feeling of confrontation and uneasiness of these memories.
Ghosts and vivid recollections flooded her psyche as she trespassed the property and wandered about, seeing spectres of scenes and feeling like an intruder to her own recollections. Strangely, it seemed as though her past consciousness had moved on from the place, leaving only shells of ectoplasm in their departures. What was left to confront was her own perspective of memory and herself.
Sarah Ninjawhee is a multimedia artist and trance musician based in Singapore. She is inspired by human phenomenology and is interested in the intersection between autonomy, power and femininity. She studied illustration in Rhode Island school of Design and fine arts at LASALLE College of the arts.
Sarah has won awards such as LASALLE'S Student Excellence Award (2019 & 2021), the LASALLE Scholarship (2017-2021) and the Winston Oh Travelogue Award (2019). She has participated in programmes such as the Kyoto University of Art and Design X LASALLE exchange programme (2018), Chanel X Harper’s Bazaar Singapore-Paris Immersion Programme (2019), Rediscover Telok Ayer x Urban Redevelopment Authority (2020). She has shown most recently at I_S_L_A_N_D_S (Singapore), TOMO Gallery (Kyoto)