Chan Xin Xu Chloe

Class of 2016

Final Year Project(s)


Good Girls, Bad Ghouls at NTU ADM Portfolio

This project is a study of selected Southeast Asian female supernatural beings, particularly female ghosts, and what they tell us about women. Through the medium of a zine encompassing text and illustration, an exploration of the issues that women face will be conducted by examining these spectral figures. Common to the tales and traits of female ghosts are themes of motherhood, gender roles, femininity, autonomy, sexuality, sexual violence, and madness. Thus the female ghost is more than just a superstitious figure; as a deviant female, she exists as a threat to gender norms and the patriarchal structure.

Selected Coursework(s)

Above and Under at NTU ADM Portfolio

Above and Under (2016)

Daydreaming is a state of indulgence in fantasy, no matter how absurd or irrational. The mind is open to ideas it is usually closed off to: the bizarre, the whimsical, the grotesque, the unreal.The work bases itself on the concept that daydreaming opens the gateway to a dimension commonly closed off to the factual mind. It induces a lapse in the structure of the material world (as we perceive it), allowing beings from a fourth dimension to enter. This is illustrated by the figure of a melancholy girl, hovering between the boundary of reality and illusion, presented in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns that weave in and out of the frame.

The work bases itself on the concept that daydreaming opens the gateway to a dimension commonly closed off to the factual mind. It induces a lapse in the structure of the material world (as we perceive it), allowing beings from a fourth dimension to enter. This is illustrated by the figure of a melancholy girl, hovering between the boundary of reality and illusion, presented in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns that weave in and out of the frame.