Silverlens presents Tabled, a solo exhibition by Yee I-Lann. This is the artist’s first exhibition at Silverlens Gallery.

The exhibition will feature various work from Yee’s portfolio: Picturing Power (2013), a series of photomontages where she mines archival images to construct the relationships between colonizers and the colonized, and makes a position for identity politics and reclaiming history; Tabled (2013), a series of ceramic dinner plates inspired by traditional blue-and-white china but printed with images of ordinary people from the streets of Malaysia and Indonesia; YB Series (2010), a satirical series of cropped photographs of flower brooches that are normally pinned onto the shirt of “important” politicians attending events; Study of Lamprey’s Malaysian Male (2009), an appropriation of an 1868-69 ethnographic photograph by John Lamprey, Front View of a Malayan Male; and, Kerbau (2007), water buffalo raking through traffic cones, which was shown at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

Yee has gained recognition internationally for her distinctive photomedia-based practice which seeks resonances across history, landscape, memory and cultural identity. Such layers necessitate an extensive and multi-layered visual vocabulary drawn from historical references, popular culture, archives and everyday objects.

About the artist:

Born in 1971 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Yee graduated from the University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia) with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 1993 with a major in Photography and a minor in Cinematography. Her work has been exhibited in museums and international biennials. Recent exhibitions include Picturing Power, Tyler Rollins, New York (2014); The (Post) Colonial Photostudio, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (2013); Paris Photo (2013); Suspended Histories, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013); Welcome to the Jungle: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (2013); and, Fluid World, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (2011). She was a member of the curatorial team for the 2013 Singapore Biennale. Yee currently lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

-Silverlens Galleries

Image: © Yee I-Lann
Courtesy of the artist and Silverlens Galleries