Ng Eng Teng
Singapore, 1934 - 2001
Person TypeIndividual
United States of America (USA), 1923 - 2015
BiographyNg's sculpture embodies his concern with themes of identity and belonging, of basic human feelings and states of mind. The theme of fear and anxiety runs from the late 1970s concurrently with the Mother-and-Child and the Split series. Figures are huddled together, singly or in groups, cringing in terror or fearful anticipation. Their bodies are compressed and turned into themselves; their heads are partially hidden within the crook of their arms.