Kah Bee Chow works primarily with installation and sculpture, developing a practice grounded in close attention to the particularities of space and site. Her process begins with careful observation of a location’s charge, tempo, and atmosphere, alongside its architectural proportions, material conditions, and spatial character. From this sustained engagement, Kah Bee Chow’s work may uncover layers of historical resonance embedded within a place, or alternatively impose a speculative logic upon it—establishing imagined parameters that serve as points of departure rather than fixed constraints.
Architecture frequently appears in Kah Bee Chow’s work as a form of shelter: a structure associated with sanctuary, protection, and refuge. Simultaneously, it is implicated as an instrument of control, shaping and regulating both the body and the psyche. This duality is central to her practice. The works are driven by multiple kinds of flows—material, systemic, rhythmic, and asymmetric—entwining and pressing against one another. Within these entanglements, the tension between care and control remains constant and unresolved.
Kah Bee Chow’s approach to making is deliberately varied and non-linear. It moves between the calculated and the intuitive, the mathematical and the bodily, the precise and the improvised. Failure, dissonance, and instability are not treated as errors but as generative forces. Through gestures of fracture, chasm, and void—alongside moments of poetry, play, and insistence—her practice explores how meaning emerges through vulnerability, resistance, and sustained attention.