Abstraction in Photography International Art Exhibition | AGATHA MA

The greatest illusion of life is that time is orderly. We place hours, minutes, and seconds into the scales of clocks, dividing day from night by the rotation of our dwelling planet. Time zones, longitudes, solar and lunar calendars — these are mere constructs, human attempts to capture time.

Indeed, being born into the world is like plunging into the ocean. With us at the center, time radiates outward like waves dispersing. Upon examining “MEMORIES,” we find life exists in two forms: fragments, and what seems solid yet is actually fragmented. “RINGS” depict these fragments encircling us, ever-changing like Saturn’s rings of dust and ice. “FUNERAL” captures the night of my grandfather’s death, a scene that, years later, emerges more vividly than yesterday’s events — clearer, truer, colder. Some fragments are sharper, piercing through the facade of orderly time to re-enter our view, compelling us to gaze longer at these mysterious moments.

Agatha Ma is a female photographer born in China. Over the years, she has specialised in documenting the details of people and life in the form of photography. After graduating from Nanyang Technological University with a degree in Information Engineering and Media, she was determined to gradually make these details public and develop them as and in the form of an artist. Her work focuses on minute details and the relationships and traces between people and people, people and artefacts.