the blur is like—
Samantha Lee, Stephanie Lee and Sudhee Liao
Group Exhibition
26 Jul–3 Aug 2025, 11am–7pm
Opening Friday, July 25, 6:00pm – 9:30pm
Open daily
26 July 2025 – 03 August 2025,
11:00am – 7:00pm
What do the daughters of immigrants inherit? Language, trauma, resilience, cultural values – all of these form an invisible intergenerational inheritance. "the blur is like—" is an immersive, multi-sensory exhibition exploring how the female body inherits memory and culture across time and space. Against the backdrop of migration and cultural displacement, we interrogate the transmission of intergenerational beliefs, revealing stories of both resilience and burden through women's lived experiences. Rather than viewing tradition and modernity as binary opposites, we propose a fluid model of inheritance—one that honours continuity while celebrating transformation.
Audiences are invited to actively engage with visceral narratives that make tangible the weight of inherited histories and the liberating potential of technology and movement. "the blur is like—" seeks not only to provoke reflection but to foster dialogue and connection, creating a dynamic space where inherited memories are honoured, questioned, and reimagined.
Through movement, interactive installations, audience participation and sensory engagement, this presentation seeks to actively engage the local community in a meaningful dialogue around migration, identity, and cultural heritage, through the lens of the female body. We seek to build an immersive experience that connects individual stories to universal ones.
This exhibition takes its title from a poem by Wong May, a poet born in wartime China and raised in Singapore. Her poetry dwells in uncertainty, in the soft edges of memory and belonging, and speaks to what is carried across borders and generations—language, silence, tenderness, loss.
Like Wong May’s work, "the blur is like—" explores inheritance not as something fixed, but as something felt through the body. In these gestures of migration, ritual, and care, we trace the blurred lines between past and present, home and elsewhere.
About the Artist(s)
Samantha Lee (b. 1993, Malaysia)
Samantha Lee is an artist and technologist, working across video, sculpture, installation, and computational systems. Her work explores how technologies shape perception, memory, and the construction of the self. She is drawn to moments when reality tips into the absurd, when memory fractures, and when technological mediation feels more intimate than lived experience. Her practice asks how culture takes shape through quiet, repetitive acts. What we scroll, imitate, or stage gently embeds itself into our ways of thinking and being. Many of her works intentionally resist easy documentation. Dimly lit and slow to unfold, they invite viewers to stay with what can’t be easily shared or replayed.
Stephanie Lee (b. 1990, Malaysia)
Steph Lee is a Malaysian performer, dance artist, and educator based in Hong Kong. She approaches dance as an exploration of physicality, imagination, and transformation. Immersed in urban environments, she views cities as stages to express and reinvent her artistry. Her practice is deeply rooted in contemporary dance and playfully integrates elements of circus arts, parkour, and dynamic contact improvisation. Embracing discomfort and failure as essential to creative growth, Steph seeks new challenges in her work. Her performances have been experienced globally in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Hong Kong, New York, Barcelona, Mexico City, Colorado, Singapore, and Malaysia. She has also toured through Egypt, Indonesia, and Eastern Europe. Collaboration is central to her artistic ethos, especially in projects involving differently abled artists and site-specific performances. Beyond dance, Steph maintains a rigorous martial arts practice and holds a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Sudhee Liao (b. 1990, Singapore)
Sudhee Liao is currently based in Singapore and Hong Kong. She obtained her BFA from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance and Choreography.
She shifts between the roles of being an interdisciplinary choreographer, movement artist and educator. Her experience is wide ranging having worked extensively with artists across many disciplines. She has also presented works in different platforms and festivals internationally. Amidst the ebb and flow of her surroundings, her work is a response to the nuances and intricacies that define the human experience that embraces the ever-evolving nature of our existence.
Her creative practice explores the intricacies of movement, weaving together threads of identity and socio-political currents. She often adds a multidimensional layer to her work by integrating movement with materials. Her work is an on-going exploration encapsulating the fleeting moments between intangible and tangible forms. It navigates the fluidity of cultural identity and the power dynamics inherent in our global society and serves as a vessel of exploration, reflection and ultimately, transformation.