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Perfect Stranger by Dawn Ng

2018
Dawn Ng
Graphic Design, Art Installation, Prepess

This work is Dawn Ng’s re-imagination of a self-portrait, a narrative time capsule of oneself “right here, right now”. And I had the priviledge, as a young designer, to see through the whole project with her from start to her first installation of it at Chan+Hori.


Installation at Chan + Hori, 2018 – Photo courtesy of artist and Chan + Hori,


PERFECT STRANGER is an installation where vast sheets of paper, ebbing with words and gradient hues, lie in parallel synchronicity to form a soft stratosphere of colour. Each sheet emits a phosphorescence, arising from a synthesis of shades unique to, and reflective of its script.

This verbose, colour-drenched body of work is a distilled collection of texts, drawn from a daily Q&A project with a stranger, an Israeli 
psychologist, over a year. It is a fossilized, fleeting exchange between two women from different pasts, presents and futures.

At once, a static yet glimmering vista of shades, the installation is visually emblematic of the irony and balance in binaries and dualities — between the monumental and mundane, stillness and change, materiality and ephemerality, was and is, hello and goodbye.

– Dawn Ng

PERFECT STRANGER, Don’t, 2018
PERFECT STRANGER, Swim, 2018
PERFECT STRANGER, Past Perfect, 2018
PERFECT STRANGER, True Story, 2018


Installation for 'Faith, Beauty, Love, Hope' at the Asian Civilisations Museum, 2021 – Photo courtesy of artist



Box set, Edition of 300, 2018

More on the project here.


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