I Slept for Two Hours (2024)
Interactive installation with audio and video projection
2 Hours 37 Minutes 51 Seconds
1st March 2024, Yuen recorded this ordinary sleepless night, electricity rumbling, low humming of streetcars, duvet being thrown around, eyes set on the broad off-white ceiling, thoughts of making art running through my restless brain.
Through this installation, viewers can experience Yuen’s almost daily insomnia episode, at some point in the audio, audience would witness the very moment of the creation of this installation, from a formless idea, to rough written words on a sketchbook, and it being materialised and being experienced first-hand.
While not carrying a specific meaning to work, Yuen uses this installation as a language to demystify the process of art-making, by sharing the vulnerable state of being almost asleep, there are no hypocrisy, no secret, this artwork is simply about itself, it is self-reflective. Yuen notices the problem with contemporary art world, that artists often tries to have references and grand ideas before realising art should be accessible by everyone, art is never just about being intertextual, sometimes it can just be about creation, the simple realisation of human touch, and this installation is the example of recognizing the importance of ‘creating’.
Forget about what you were reading, forget about what big troubles you have to deal with after the alarm rang, sleep tight, dream away.