Incomplete Love Puzzle is a colour jigsaw puzzle printed with the same image used in the photocopies. Originally containing 1,008 pieces (the standard number in a large puzzle), several key pieces have been removed, leaving 958 pieces to be assembled by visitors. The missing pieces disidentify the subjects, eliminating individuality and intimating a greater social practice surrounding the exchange of romantic declarations. Reproduced from an original image, like the photocopies, the jigsaw puzzle simultaneously monumentalizes and negates the original, and transforms a private, intimate moment into a public, group activity.

Installation views, Love in Translation, XPACE Cultural Centre, Nov/Dec 2011