The Rocking Dream is Au Sow Yee and Chen Yow-Ruu first joint Solo Exhibition.  The exhibition is extended from a commissioned work entitled Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a The Rocking Malay(a) by Singapore Art Museum in 2024.  Utilizing hybrid elements such as video, archives, sound recordings and miniature models, both the exhibition and the work explore the unstable and rocking situations of identity borders through a Malay folklore Si Tanggang, opening up complex transformations of folklore, memory and politics.  Si Tanggang tells the story of the protagonist cursed by his mother into a rock after he renounced his mother in search of wealth, hierarchy, new identity and new ethnicity.  The Rocking Dream is a play of the word “Rocking.”  Its root is Rock, and rock is something that is stable.  While “Rocking” indicates an unstable and swaying state.  This exhibition is a metaphorical voyage of the complex politics on the construction and deconstruction of identity.

《The Rocking Dream》為區秀詒與陳侑汝的首次聯合個展。本展延伸自兩人於2024年受新加坡美術館（Singapore Art Museum）委託創作的作品《噩夢搖擺》，藉由馬來民間故事「Si Tanggang」探索身份邊界的不穩定狀態，以影像、聲音檔案、模型等混合元素，展開傳說、記憶、政治的複雜變貌。「Si Tanggang」述說背棄母親追尋財富、階級、新身份以及族裔的主角被母親詛咒變成石頭的故事。展名《The Rocking Dream》提示了英文「Rocking」一字的雙關語，字根Rock為石頭，「Rocking」則意指搖晃、搖擺狀態。本展以石頭的堅硬和搖擺的晃動拉鋸，隱喻身份建構和解構的複雜政治。

May 8th (Thu.) 3:00pm – 4:00pm｜5月8日（四）下午15:00 – 16:00

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