Priyageetha Dia, Turbine Tropics (2023). Two-channel video (colour, sound). 11 min. Edition of 3 + 2 AP. Courtesy the artist and Yeo Workshop.
The largest celebration of visual arts in Singapore returns this month with a monumental selection of exhibitions to see across Singapore Art Week (19–28 January 2024).
Located in a shophouse on Kim Yam Road, Archiving Landscape presents two moving-image works by artists Priyageetha Dia and Maryanto that address socio-political concerns in Southeast Asia through the shifting landscapes of its natural environments.
Dismayed by the ongoing pillaging of land and natural resources in his native Indonesia, Maryanto presents a documentary that centres on the active volcano Mount Merapi. Also exhibited are the artist's earlier monochromatic paintings and drawings that allude to a more sustainable future.
Priyageetha Dia's two-channel video TURBINE TROPICS (2023) draws compelling links between the extractivism of colonial plantations and our present-day digital era. For the artist, the appropriation of data perpetuates, in a new guise, the historical disenfranchisement of Southeast Asia's plantations.
Priyageetha Dia & Maryanto: Archiving Landscape
Yenn and Alan Lo Foundation (presented by Yeo Workshop), 63 Kim Yam Road
17–28 January 2024
Expect: two moving-image works exploring Southeast Asia's geopolitical and postcolonial landscape.
