TROMARAMA

For Growing Pillars, Tromarama selected objects, video clips, and images from their personal archives, such as family photos, cassettes, and books, to compose a filmic movement overlaid by animated objects from their childhood homes. The symbols and motifs are reflective of both the beauty and turbulence of life, while evoking the intimacy of home and the intricacy of memory. Although the personal archives are fragile, they serve as foundational support for growth and forming one’s worldview. Tromarama layers the cleaning gesture further onto the moving collage, inspired by a trip to Bali for Melukat, the Balinese tradition to purify the body, mind, and soul.

Growing Pillars is infused with emotion, care, and humour. Presented on the M+ Facade, it creates an ambiguous space where the personal and the societal, the private and the public collide.