Artist-in-Residence #05/#06
DATES
13 APRIL – 5 MAY 2023
VENUE
DECK
120A Prinsep Street
Singapore 187937
ADMISSION
Free
About
Artist-in-Residence (A.i.R.) is a year-round programme that aims to nurture new and experimental photographic endeavours in Singapore and Asia. The platform provides the opportunity and resources for artists to focus on developing their practice and creating new works. Each edition of A.i.R. concludes with a showcase of new creations, accompanied by public talks and/or workshops helmed by the artist.
[A.i.R. is resuming after a hiatus of three years due to the pandemic and closed borders.]
[A.i.R. is resuming after a hiatus of three years due to the pandemic and closed borders.]
Featuring
Mm Yu
Artist
MM Yu works between photography and painting, tackling the nuances achieved between composition and color as they occupy the frame. Primarily drawn to street photography and documenting the everyday, her photographs evoke the ever-changing cultural texture and topology of Manila as seen through its inhabitants, the city’s infrastructure and its waste-product as it archives not only the economy but also the ecology of life in the myriad forms it takes in the city.
The hybrid and density of MM Yu’s subjects remind us of how objects and signs are not necessarily self-contained but take part in larger systems of interaction. These recorded static scenarios show through their thematic variety the artist’s interest in discovering and valuing the fleeting moment present. Through her ongoing interest in deciphering the unseen landscape of ordinary things, they also force us to rethink what our minds already know and rediscover what our eyes have already seen.
Yu received her degree in Fine Arts from the University of Philippines in 2001. She is a recipient of the CCP 13Artist Award 2009, Ateneo Art Awards 2007, Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist 2010 and Goethe Institute Climate Change workshop grant 2014. She received her BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines and completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003), Common Room Bandung Residency Grant (2007) and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France (2013).
The hybrid and density of MM Yu’s subjects remind us of how objects and signs are not necessarily self-contained but take part in larger systems of interaction. These recorded static scenarios show through their thematic variety the artist’s interest in discovering and valuing the fleeting moment present. Through her ongoing interest in deciphering the unseen landscape of ordinary things, they also force us to rethink what our minds already know and rediscover what our eyes have already seen.
Yu received her degree in Fine Arts from the University of Philippines in 2001. She is a recipient of the CCP 13Artist Award 2009, Ateneo Art Awards 2007, Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist 2010 and Goethe Institute Climate Change workshop grant 2014. She received her BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines and completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003), Common Room Bandung Residency Grant (2007) and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France (2013).
Poklong Anading
Artist
Fascinated with the process of creation and permutation, Poklong Anading explores different media to engage with a range of sociopolitical and environmental questions. He is not driven by an overt agenda, however, but prefers to let his mind wander—thinking with and through his materials as they undergo their transformations. For example, he frequently uses found objects and discarded materials that lead him to investigate notions of worth and value and to explore what it means for art to exist inside and beyond capitalist production.
Anading was born in Manila, in 1975. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in painting from the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines (1999).
He had solo exhibitions in Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria (2010, 2012 and 2020), Taro Nasu in Japan and Athr Gallery in Jeddah (2016), Silverlens Gallery in Manila (2022). He has also been included in notable group exhibitions such as: Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2002 and 2012), No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the first exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore (2013 to 2014), 5th Asian Art Biennial: Artist Making Movement, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2015), The Shadow Never Lies, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Afterwork, Para Site, Hong Kong, China, Architecture Biennale for the 15th Exhibition, Philippine Pavilion: Muhon: Traces of an Adolescent City at Pallazo Mora, Venice, Italy (2016), Constellations, Photographs in Dialogue, SFMOMA, California, USA (2021) and Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore (2022).
Anading was born in Manila, in 1975. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in painting from the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines (1999).
He had solo exhibitions in Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria (2010, 2012 and 2020), Taro Nasu in Japan and Athr Gallery in Jeddah (2016), Silverlens Gallery in Manila (2022). He has also been included in notable group exhibitions such as: Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2002 and 2012), No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the first exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore (2013 to 2014), 5th Asian Art Biennial: Artist Making Movement, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2015), The Shadow Never Lies, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Afterwork, Para Site, Hong Kong, China, Architecture Biennale for the 15th Exhibition, Philippine Pavilion: Muhon: Traces of an Adolescent City at Pallazo Mora, Venice, Italy (2016), Constellations, Photographs in Dialogue, SFMOMA, California, USA (2021) and Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore (2022).
