Carissa Foo

ACENTRICSPACE第151位驻地艺术家

2025年五月驻地艺术家
Carissa Foo

No. 151 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist

2025 May Resident Artist

Carissa Foo

 关于艺术家 About the Artist 

(新加坡 Singapore

www.carissafoo.com

 

Carissa Foo是一位小说作家,她的作品以女性生活和人际关系为主题。受现代主义的启发,她的文笔干净利落,富有沉思性,发人深省,常常聚焦于生活中的平凡时刻。她已出版两部长篇小说和一部短篇小说集;她即将出版的作品是对阅读与爱的交汇的思考。
Carissa Foo is a fiction writer whose works are anchored in women’s lives and relationships. Inspired by the modernists, her writing is clean, meditative, and interiorly-turned, often fixing on the ordinary moments in one’s life. She is the author of two novels and a short story collection; her forthcoming work is a contemplation on the intersection of reading and loving.
 过往作品  Previous Works 
What We Learned From Driving In Winter
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2022
三位在伦敦的新加坡大学生,性格迥异,先是成为室友,随后迅速成为好友。在2010年代中期的三个冬天,Gigi、Yi-En和Clare互相依靠,共同面对创伤和巨大的、可怕的人生变故。当克莱尔失踪的消息传来后,吉吉和怡恩踏上了前往乡村的公路之旅,追溯她生命最后时光的轨迹。
Three Singaporean university students in London, as unalike as can be, become roommates and then fast friends. Over three winters in the mid-2010s, Gigi, Yi-En and Clare rely on each other in the face of trauma and big, scary life changes. When news comes of Clare’s disappearance, Gigi and En take a road trip to the countryside to retrace the path of her final days. 
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No Wonder, Women
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2023
两个女人因为一颗仙人掌气球而更加亲密。一位母亲从后视镜里偷偷瞥了一眼她十几岁的女儿。一位新娘在婚礼前夕想念她最好的朋友。一个为想太多的女性设立的开放支持小组。什么是女人的爱?《No Wonder, Women》是一首献给女性的颂歌 – 献给那些热烈地爱着、深情地感受着她们的心。让我们一窥那些试图去爱但又不爱自己的女性的生活。
Two women bond over a balloon cactus. A mother steals glances at her teenage daughter in the rear-view mirror. A bride misses her best friend on the eve of her wedding. An open support group for women who think too much. What is woman’s love? No Wonder, Women is an ode to women – to hearts that love fiercely and feel deeply. A glimpse into the lives of women who are trying to love without unloving themselves.
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