MALAYSIAN artist Yee I-Lann will showcase her solo exhibition Yee I-Lann: Mansau-Ansau at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) alongside Thai artist Pratchaya Phinthong as part of the museum’s aim to profile Southeast Asian artists.
Yee I-Lann: Mansau-Ansau presents recent and important works by the Sabah contemporary artist, including two new commissions that reflect current aesthetic and material trajectories. The exhibition’s title Mansau-Ansau – a phrase meaning “to walk and walk” in the Dusun and Kadazan languages – symbolises an open-ended journey that encourages discovery for deeper cultural insights.
The exhibition, which runs until March 23, 2025, traverses two decades of Yee’s creation, addressing historical and contemporary narratives and knowledge with a focus on power, identity and community. Through these themes, Yee invites audiences to consider the forces that shape Malaysia and extending beyond Southeast Asia, global cultural and aesthetic landscapes.
Yee considers herself a “reader” rather than a “maker” of photographs, often working with found images and collages to highlight embedded and underlying histories and narratives, thus providing an aesthetic space of observation and critique of visual representation and their alternatives.
