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2024
Diriyah Biennale           
SPECTRE SYSTEM 🛠️
2024 
CROSSROADS       
2023 
SEA AiR NTU CCA
2023
Frieze Seoul   
2023
Singapore Art Museum   
2022 
Kochi-Muziris Biennale   
2022 
NTU CCA AiR 
2022 
Yeo Workshop   
2022 
CROSSROADS 
2021 
Between the Living and the Archive
2020 
National Gallery Singapore       
2020     
Art Science Museum 
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2023. Turbine Tropics

Video installation, black collapsible crates
Two-channel video, (colour and sound), 11min

Prints: Render_TurbineTropics_01, and Render_TurbineTropics_02, 2023
Direct UV print on silver dibond, 800mm x 800mm

Presented by Yeo Workshop for Frieze Seoul 2023 
Graphic Design: Studio Darius Ou
Image Credits: Jonathan Tan

Turbine Tropics explores the impact of extractive capitalism and Southeast Asian plantation narratives. It investigates plantation corporatism's invisibility to the public, utilising monoculture industries as a lens for geopolitical dynamics. Integrating Homi K. Bhabha's liminality theory, Dia views rubber plantations as spaces of continuous transformation, caught between the natural and artificial. The work, through symbolic spirals and helical forms, critiques colonial extractivism and its lasting effects, embodying the tension between global forces and local ecologies.