"Manila & Singapore Based artist Dara Lo works primarily with performance, often creating pieces that unfold through bodily presence, gesture, and process. What remains after these ephemeral acts—fragments, residues, sculptural traces—are not merely remnants, but integral to the work’s meaning. In Unbound I and Unbound II, we encounter two such vestiges, shaped by hand and time, marking what once was a complete trilogy.

The Unbound series meditates on the tension between form and its undoing: what holds, what slips, and what remains. Using materials such as paper mache, modeling compound, cement blocks, and childhood objects, Lo constructs a visual archaeology of memory. These works are shaped not only by sculptural force, but by performative history; bodies that moved, pressed, broke, or held. Now resting in quiet dissonance, these forms carry an absence that feels almost physical. They are not whole, and yet they are complete in their incompleteness. Lo treats absence as a presence, etched into every surface, where memory and loss push against each other.

Through the use of humble, fragile materials, often associated with childhood, domesticity, or play—Lo confronts the instability of memory and the impermanence of form. These sculptures are not static monuments, but intimate echoes of an action once performed, of time passing, of something that mattered enough to leave a mark."