Arrvinraj

Arrvinraj (b.1996) raised in Malaysia is an emerging artist and student from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. Currently, he is studying Diploma in Fine Art and he is a multidisciplinary artist which his practice revolves with painting, sculpting, performance art and art installation. He was awarded the Tan Ean Kiam arts bursary (Diploma) in 2018. In 2019, he worked with Changi Airport Group for the public sculpture design project for the airport gardens. Besides that, he was in part of the group show “200” curated by Singapore Sculpture Society, held at Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre in June 2019. On top of that, he interned at Deck Art Photography Gallery as a program assistant. He is an inquisitive person who is obsessed with art.

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Accent

Ninth Series +

23 May 2020

Online

Accents typically differ in quality of the voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress, and prosody. Judging from the way we speak, it portrays our own identities. These identities stem from the larger socio-structural background in which we live. The relationship chain formed between people invisibly binds the individual's cognition and thinking, thereby changing the individual's response to their surroundings. Consequently, individuals try to hide their thoughts and disguise themselves in order to integrate into this majority-sided society. Being entangled in this complicated relationship chain, can we still speak in our accent? Our thoughts? View? Emotion?