Wild Guest at ACCESS KL Art Fair

There is something very satisfying about checking into a hotel room and discovering that the room has already been claimed by sculpture.

For ACCESS KL Art Fair, I’m showing Wild Guest inside one of the rooms at KLoé Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. That shift matters. Instead of presenting the work in a standard booth, the sculptures are dropped directly into a space that already carries its own logic: bed, bedside lights, curtains, desk, television, all the small signals of temporary occupation. It lets the work behave differently. Less like objects lined up for inspection, more like characters that have quietly moved in before you arrived.

The installation brings together animals in crystal, marble, and mirror-polished stainless steel, placed throughout the room so that the experience feels part domestic, part theatrical, and slightly off in the best way. A bright yellow piece sits boldly on the bed as if it belongs there. Smaller works gather on the desk like an odd little social circle. The polished steel catches the room and throws it back at you. Nothing is on its best pedestal behaviour. That is the point.

I’ve always liked the moment when an artwork stops asking to be admired from a safe distance and starts interfering with the space around it. In a hotel room, that tension becomes more fun. The room is familiar, even intimate, but the sculptures unsettle that familiarity just enough. They turn hospitality into something stranger. Are you staying in the room, or are you intruding on their stay?

As some of you know, I came to sculpture after two decades in 3D animation, so I’m naturally drawn to that line where the physical world starts feeling staged, exaggerated, or faintly unreal. Hotel rooms already have that quality. They are real places, but they are also temporary fictions people step into for a night or two. That made them the right setting for this body of work. The sculptures don’t simply occupy the room. They activate it.

ACCESS KL Art Fair is conceived and organised by G13 Gallery, and the hotel format gives the whole experience a very different rhythm from a conventional art fair. You open a door and enter a scene. The work has a chance to ambush you a little. I like that.

If you’re in Kuala Lumpur, come visit Wild Guest at KLoé Hotel.

VIP Preview: 17 April 2026, 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Public Viewing: 18 to 19 April 2026, 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM