Tatler Malaysia

On the Impossibility of Recovery

alaysian artist Ivan Lam invited me to write about his latest and most intimate body of work, (2022): an assemblage of bodily experiences that explore on a personal and collective level what it means to live with chronic pain. Immediately, I sensed that is an exhibition that happens in a state of negotiation, for it sees Lam’s sensitivity in tension with his decades-long renowned mastery of both

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