technical pen on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
I Win You Lose; You Lose I Win is a time durational series of work that touches on the remedy of pain and struggles. In a battle or competition, regardless of anything, there will be a winning and a losing. From the time of 2019 to 2022 in which those pieces were created, inner struggles like encountering infirmities and other struggles like the obligatory adaptation with our surroundings have also caused many mental struggles maybe not only to oneself but also to many others. As time passed by, it has come to a point of realisation that that there’s always a struggle/struggles that we have to face as a human being; whether it’s within our own self or with others, and in spite of everything, if I win you will lose and if you lose, I will win.
Grace Angel (b. 1999, Indonesia) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Singapore. Grace is a graduate with a degree Honours in Fine Art Practice from NAFA in partnership with UCLan. As a practicing artist and printmaker, her works often explore the notion of human nature and the beauty in their imperfections. In her current interest, she focuses more on restoring the lost and forgotten memories found in the society’s mundaneness. Looking into the thematic exploration of both inhabited and abandoned spaces and slowly moving into tackling the complex issues of abandonment and memory in the present’s context. Often characterised by her use of symbolism and juxtapositional composition in her works, she has been able to examine the context of her interest in different experiences of drawing, painting, printmaking, and also installations.