Alaya Ang Ying Ying (b. 1984, Singapore) is an artist currently living and working between Edinburgh and Glasgow. They attended The Glasgow School Of Art, majoring in Sculpture and Environmental Art. Alaya is currently on a 2-year residency programme with the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.

Their practice focuses on different material processes, methods of making meaning that take a perspective of “stickiness” proposed by Sara Ahmed of “an effect of the histories of contact between bodies, objects, and signs” and the outcome of these repeated impressions.

Using writing, as well as the dialogical nature of collaborative projects, they explore the intertextuality of artistic processes which enable starting points for autobiographical narratives to emerge.

they rehearse a world of becoming by using situational strategies of being in study together as a state of interconnectednes, ‘everything worthwhile is done with other people’ (Mariame Kaba)

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: alayaang1@gmail.com

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