Yee I-Lann’s practice speculates on issues of culture, power and the role of historical memory in our social experience via allusion to historical, popular and everyday references often through the medium of photography. Linking historical artistic methodologies such as batik with contemporary content such as recent histories, she experiments by blurring the boundaries between official record and subjective histories. Her current research focus is on folkloric female spirit ghost stories, specifically the Pontianak, versions of which are found throughout South East Asia. The Pontianak is commonly described as a vengeful woman who died in childbirth, is a seductress of innocent victims and resides in the banana tree. Singapore based Cathay-Keris and Shaw Brothers were amongst the earliest producers of cinematic versions of Pontianak stories spawning one of the most pervasive characters in regional cinema. I-Lann will be attempting to unpack the riddle of the Pontianak and will be watching a lot of horror films.
Malaysia
Yee I-Lann
Malaysia
Yee I-Lann
27 April - 3 July 2015
Yee I-Lann’s practice speculates on issues of culture, power and the role of historical memory in our social experience via allusion to historical, popular and everyday references often through the medium of photography.
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Yee I-Lann
Yee I-Lann
Artist · NTU CCA Singapore
COUNTRY OF PRACTICE: Malaysia
Yee I-Lann is an artist. Her practice speculates on issues of culture, power, and the role of historical memory in our social experience by way of allusion to historical, popular, and everyday references, often through the medium of photography. Recent exhibitions include Away from the Long Night, MSAC, Taipei (2014); The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art from South East Asia, ARTER, Istanbul (2014); Welcome to the Jungle: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, Yokohama Museum of Art (2013); Suspended Histories, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam (2013); Art of Memory: Contemporary Textile Expressions, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand (2013). She was a member of the curatorial team for the 2013 Singapore Biennale. Yee also works in the film industry in Malaysia.
Between April and July 2015, Yee was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore where she continued her research on folkloric ghost stories of female spirits, specifically the figure of the Pontianak, depictions of which are found throughout Southeast Asia.
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Engaging Perspectives: New Art from Singapore
Online
26 Jan 2013 - 31 Mar 2013
26 Jan 2013 - 31 Mar 2013
exhibition
Trinh T. Minh-ha. Films
07 Oct 2020 - 28 Feb 2021
exhibition
Campur, Tolak, Kali, Bahagi, Sama Dengan (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Equals) Solo Project by Roslisham Ismail aka Ise
16 Jan - 07 Mar 2021
exhibition
Free Jazz III. Sound. Walks.
Online
02 Oct 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
02 Oct 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
exhibition
The Disappearance
05 Apr 2014 - 06 Apr 2014
exhibition
Arus Balik: From below the wind to above the wind and back again
22 Mar 2019 - 23 Jun 2019
residency
Sim Chi Yin
United Kingdom
26 Oct 2020 - 28 May
exhibition
The Posthuman City. Climates. Habitats. Environments
23 Nov 2019 - 15 Mar 2020
exhibition
Allan Sekula: Fish Story, to be continued
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