With a hand that trembles, with a human trembling (2025)
With a hand that trembles, with a human trembling (2025) looks at gestures in the everyday that hold glimpses of the human.
Images take their departure point from poetry, recognising the form as an embodiment of seeing; the very doing of poetry itself as a reminder of living. Images locate meaning in banal matter that resist and respond to our gazes in kind — at moments in tender curiosity, oftentimes in humanlike vulnerability.
At its core, this work asks: could art possibly be viewed upon as the ordinary act of living? Through images that extend as hesitations and reminders, an artist searches for impressions of an existence within folds of the lonely, quiet, and delicate.
This work was first presented at And Still (2025), a duo-artist exhibition by Chuen Kah Jun and Tay Yiling, winners of the 15th edition of the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography. And Still debuted at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore.
Exhibition Photography by Jonathan Tan.