speaks to migratory notions of belonging, physical movement and isolation. Folding Live Art strategies into wide-ranging artistic outcomes that include drawings, photographs, spatial installations, video and sound performances, the ongoing series was triggered in 2012 by Widjaja’s change in citizenship; a time of charged national conversation on the rights of immigrants in Singapore, his newly adopted country; and the broader narrative of relentless urban migration in the world.
2012. Solo exhibition at The Substation, Singapore curated by Zarina Muhammad. Visual Arts Open Call Commission.
2012. Part of solo exhibition Sungai, Sejarah. Performed at YRAC-S base, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
2013. Group exhibition. Performed at The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series, Singapore.
2014. Part of solo exhibition Drawing Cage at The U Factory, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
2014. Solo exhibition at Jendela (Visual Arts Space), The Esplanade, Singapore.
2015. Commissioned for live art festival From East to the Barbican for the Barbican's Interfaces program. Curated by Something Human. Supported by Town Hall Hotel and the Singapore International Foundation.
2017. 57th Venice Biennale, International Curators Forum Diaspora Pavilion, Map1: Waterways. Curated by Something Human. Supported by the Singapore International Foundation and Canon.
2018. Live art. Commissioned by the Asian Film Archive, State of Motion: Sejarah-ku, curated by Kamiliah Bahdar.
2019. Commissioned by the Temenggong Artists-in-Residence, Singapore for Longings, 寄望, jiwa curated by Yueh-Siang Chang; and supported by the National Museum of Singapore. In consultation with geneticist Assoc. Prof Dr. Eric Yap, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
2021. Video: 7 min 11 sec. Commissioned by BIO:ART SEA:T (Southeast Asia Taiwan) curated by Tang Fu Kuen and partly supported by the National Arts Council (Singapore) Creation Grant and Exactly Foundation.