Our New Representation: PRIYAGEETHA DIA ????????? ????

Yeo Workshop is pleased to announce the representation of PRIYAGEETHA DIA ????????? ????

Priyageetha Dia ????????? ???? (Singapore, She/her) is a visual artist working at the intersections of moving image and installation. Her practice gestures visions of cultural memory and counter-narratives that interplay into the future past while navigating the identity politics of the Tamizh experience in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Priyageetha Dia currently lives and works in Singapore. Her works have been showcased in group exhibitions including ‘Attention Seeker’ (2022) at La Trobe Art Institute, Australia; ‘An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season’ (2020) at the National Gallery Singapore; ‘2219: Futures Imagined’ (2019) at Art Science Museum Singapore; S.E.A Focus (2019) at Gillman Barracks, Singapore.

Top:W(O)MBLESS (O)PTICS (STILL), 2021, from Moving Image: Single-channel video, 1920 x 1080, h.264,colour, stereo; 6 minutes 7 seconds. Bottom: LONG LIVE THE NEW FLES$S$SH, 2020, excerpt, Single channel video, 16:9 format, colour and sound (stereo), 4 min 30 sec

Her first solo exhibition at the gallery,?Forget Me Forget Me Not, will be on view from 21 May - 26 June. In Forget Me, Forget Me Not, Priyageetha Dia pursues a mindful encounter mediated by technology with colonial representations of labouring bodies. How does one attend to difficult imagery —visual and textual— that continue to dispossess colonial subjects of dignity and agency? Amid the sea of information and data prone to racialised terminology, what are the possibilities for an artistic engagement to eschew or hijack the perpetuation of violence? While the exhibition title calls to question what to remember and forget, it is concerned in equal manner with the ways to do it. The exhibition urges for new forms and ethics of remembrance by an artist whose use and consciousness of technology consciously dismisses its claims to neutrality and immateriality.

RITE OF THE TIME TELLER, 2021. Top: Still; Bottom:Moving Image of Single-channel on screen, 16.9 format, colour and sound, 3 min 36 sec, Installation: Graphic print on silk, LED light, gold chain and rings

BLOOD SUN, 2022. CGI, 9:16 format, colour, 30-sec loop.

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