…I notice that we rarely question the intentions and processes in selecting, editing, and approving texts to print.

I mean, there’s this certain legit vibe that published articles would give off, a subconscious collective assumption that, since a body of text has published, they’ve been proofread and well-researched with integrity. I don’t know about you la but you know how fairness and meritocracy is assumed to exist omnipotently in our daily life? I guess similar questions can be raised in the fine art industry for a number of artworks, situated in a white space, introduced by a curator’s text... I think curating is an activity prone to corruption be it based on close relationships and/or clout, a museum’s collection is a deliberate selection of history to be archived. It requires more than repeat visits to an exhibition and an impartial judgment to know the reasoning of each work’s placement. I feel that searching for a fair and correct curating is an endless, meaningless feat when the system is rigged to be ever so slightly biased. Plug aims to amplify the unavoidable narcissism and subconscious biases in selecting, writing, arranging, displaying, and curating works in an exhibition.

This is a set of multiple rooms curated as anyhow as the curator wants them to be, based on their name, fame, clout, personal relationships, marketable common traits, and any other forms of lobang imaginable. Putting the plug in the lobang, if I could say so myself. Write-ups/context are tailored to be about the sense of self, with sentences all beginning with an I. “Sub-rooms” are separated by line breaks, all existing in one page. While sarcastic, the project respects all artists and their works — the blunt irony and surface-level judgmental sentences are intentionally made to be blatantly obvious, in hopes that it does not mislead audiences into misunderstanding the works in such faux context. Multiple artists exist in different rooms in hopes to further avoid the works to be boxed in a certain environment / implied stereotype. Each room should showcase all works submitted by the artist to provide fuller context of their overall practice.