We’ve got the sun under our skin is a series of photographs and texts illustrating the incremental effects that colonial literature has on the construction of modern identity. Drawing from...
We’ve got the sun under our skin is a series of photographs and texts illustrating the incremental effects that colonial literature has on the construction of modern identity. Drawing from 20th century British travelogues and ethnographic accounts in Malaya, images are created in response to the stories. Shot entirely in Britain, the photographs function as portrayals of the explorers’ experiences in the Straits Settlements—a mimicry to subvert the orientalist gaze.
Youth, Joseph Conrad, 1898: "A puff faint and tepid laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still night—the first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, likea whispered promise of mysterious delight."