Singapore

Wang Ruobing

Singapore

Wang Ruobing

2 September 2022 - 31 January 2023

During the residency, the artist intends to expand her ongoing research on ocean ecologies and on the human impact on marine life by forging connections and, potentially, activating collaborations with scientific research centres at Nanyang Technological University.

Environmental knowledge and the ways it is communicated through visual arts have been at the core of Wang Ruobing’s practice for the past twenty years. With rising water temperatures and the expansion of the Tropical Warm Pool—a large mass of ocean water that features water temperature above 28 degree within which maritime Southeast Asia is situated—the coastal ecosystems in the region have become a crucial field for environmental research and climate change studies. Drawing equal inspiration from scientific knowledge and from Donna J. Haraway’s theories of ‘sympoiesis’ (making-with), the artist hopes to develop new artworks that reconfigure more sustainable relations to the Earth and all its inhabitants.

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