Artist

Yeo Siew Hua

Artworks

The Kind

2022

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

The Nasty

2022

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

The Impudent

2022

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

The Powerful

2022

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

The Fool

2021

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

The Ascetic

2021

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

The Excess

2021

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

The Lover

2021

Non-Fungible Token, Single-Channel Video Loop, 0:40 Runtime, 1920 x 1536 Pixels

Artist Bio

(b. 1985, Singapore)

Yeo Siew Hua is known for being the writer-director behind “A Land Imagined”, which won the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival, the Golden Leopard when it premiered in competition in 2018. Coming from a film background, Yeo’s video artworks emphasize the development of “characters” and “settings”. Evoking archetypes from Golden Age Malayan Cinema, the two works shown in this exhibition demonstrate his strong visual language and storytelling prowess.

With a strong background in film, Yeo draws inspiration from archetypes and aesthetics in classic Malayan cinema to create haunting videos of landscapes that portray posthumous earth. Yet unlike most bleak, apocalyptic scenes, Yeo’s landscapes are lush and filled with signs of life. In harkening back to themes of rebirth and the reincarnation of nature, Yeo reimagines a future that is quietly hopeful.