Ren Zi turned to art after having spent his working life in the business of words, having previously worked in advertising. He channels the mutative influences of popular culture, science and the multi-cultural strains that weigh upon the consciousness of his native Singapore. In his work, he focuses on the role memory plays in our sense of identity and of the world. This comes from having majored in psychology and from the sense of loss that grew out of growing up in a country whose past has been all but erased. Far from nostalgic, his work seems more like open-ended stories. They juxtapose scenes and figures from personal memory, history and mythology as invitation to weave your own connections and conclusions.