Erzan Adam is an artist and arts educator at LASALLE College of the Arts (Fine Art). He is interested in exploring the art of abstraction in using text and language to explore ideas of translation, identity, dis/location, and social responsibility.
He pursued his Bachelor's in Contemporary Art with the University of Tasmania and was admitted to the Dean's Roll of Excellence. He later pursued a Master of Fine Art at LASALLE College of the Arts in 2008. He is a recipient of the UOB Painting of the Year award (2001); and The Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award (2006).
In this series, Serpihan (Fragments), I explore the idea of narrative abstraction by using text and language to examine the concept of translation and dis/location ideas. Based on the artefact of old scrolls, books and maps, the work invites the audience on a journey. Search within the layers of abstraction marks and text to find the legible forms and shapes of language. For this first series of works, the main focus is on the textuality, and arbitrary relation between the text read and the text seen.
