Silverlens is pleased to present Tabled, a solo exhibition by Yee I-Lann taking place at Silverlens Gillman Barracks from August 1 to September 7, 2014. This is the artist’s first exhibition at Silverlens.

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 Such layers necessitate an extensive and multi-layered visual vocabulary drawn from historical references, popular culture, archives and everyday objects.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.

Tabled by YEE I-LANN runs from 01 August to 07 September 2014 at Silverlens Gillman Barracks, 47 Malan Road, #01-25, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109444.