Empirical Nonsense

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KEH HUI NG . Loch Ness

Keh Hui Ng was born in New Zealand and has lived in Malaysia, Australia, the UK before finally settling in Germany. He completed a Masters of Fine Arts at Central St Martins in 2009 and has exhibited Internationally in Sydney, Beijing, Rio De Janeiro, Chongqing, Chiangmai, Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, Bristol, Manchester and London. He has won the Red Mansion Prize, Title Art Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Bristol Biennial.

His practice is primarily concerned with local stories that people remember, recount and re-interpret over time. He has been collecting these stories around the world for several years now, and considers his practice to be an ongoing compendium that is independent from the original events. Each new iteration of a story may bear some resemblance to the previous, but is also treated as a new event. With this in mind, his works attempt to "forget" formulas or the reliance of a specific medium. He considers each piece to be a lens that is chosen with a specific re-telling in mind.

Keh is also one half of the Modern Language Experiment which is an artist led project that has led to collaborations that were shown at the Tate Modern bookshop, MoMa PS1 book fair, Folkestone Triennial and as part of a Film Marmalade screening at the Arnolfini. 

His piece "Loch Ness" was produced after a family holiday in Scotland. In a time when vacations, getting together with family and travelling to new places has become challenging for many of us, it felt apt to present this memory and observation from a different time and place for the audiences of the END.