Fyerool Darma
Singapore
 

During the residency, the artist will attempt to excavate textual archives and physical artefacts that are found both online (in his web browser caches) and offline.

Fyerool Darma

1 October 2019 - 28 April 2020

In this continuation of Fyerool Darma’s research, the area of Telok Blangah becomes a landscape of introspection and the backdrop for a range of artistic exercises. During the residency, the artist will attempt to excavate textual archives and physical artefacts that are found both online (in his web browser caches) and offline. Along the process, he aims to question, reclaim, and speculate upon lesser known histories of the area by figuring forth an imaginary landscape where literary and textual evidence is merged with hearsay and folklore. Through this exercise, Fyerool intends to explore how today’s power relations are shaped by the ways in which we navigate the past.

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Fyerool Darma, 1 October 2019 — 28 April 2020, Courtesy the artist.
Fyerool Darma, 1 October 2019 — 28 April 2020, Courtesy the artist.
Fyerool Darma, 1 October 2019 — 28 April 2020, Courtesy the artist.
Fyerool Darma, 1 October 2019 — 28 April 2020, Courtesy the artist.
Fyerool Darma, 1 October 2019 — 28 April 2020, Courtesy the artist.
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Contributors
Fyerool Darma
Fyerool Darma
Artist-in-Residence
Singapore

Fyerool Darma (b. 1987, Singapore) interrogates and complicates the cultural consumption of history and myth in relation to contemporary markers of identity and class. His artefacts are based on an extensive visual vocabulary drawn from popular culture, literature, archives, the internet, and his own life. Recent solo exhibitions include Sunny, your smile ease the pain, Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2019) and the long-term research project After Ballads, NUS Museum, Singapore (2017-18).He has exhibited in group exhibitions such as As the West Slept, Silver Art Projects, New York, United States; 900mdpl: Ghosts of a Thousand Conversations, Kaliurang, Indonesia; Lost and found: imagining new worlds, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (all 2019), and An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore Biennale (2016).