2023
Video Installation, Print
Video Installation, Print
Turbine Tropics, 2023
Black collapsible crates, two-channel video, (colour and sound), 11min
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Direct UV print on silver dibond, 800mm x 800mm
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.
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Graphic Design: Studio Darius Ou
Image Credits: Jonathan Tan
Black collapsible crates, two-channel video, (colour and sound), 11min
Render_TurbineTropics_01,2023
Render_TurbineTropics_02, 2023
Direct UV print on silver dibond, 800mm x 800mm
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.
Read full text here
Graphic Design: Studio Darius Ou
Image Credits: Jonathan Tan
Frieze Seoul, Focus Asia
Seoul, South Korea
Presented by Yeo Workshop
Seoul, South Korea
Presented by Yeo Workshop
