Akar
2020
Single Channel Video with Sound
5 minutes 37 seconds
Collection of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
[ji.wa], meaning soul in both Indonesian and Malay, marks the debut solo exhibition of emerging Singaporean multidisciplinary artist Fitri Ya'akob. Through video, sculpture and photography that move from the indigenous sea people (Orang Laut) and fishing villages to mangroves, coral reefs and plastic debris, the works bear witness to the lives lived and living, and hold in tension, the contradictions that define the island’s existence: the beauty and the neglect, the rooted and the disappearing, the intimacy of a place unmoored.
Akar, 2020, Single Channel Video with Sound, 5 minutes 37 seconds, Collection of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
The Blue People, 2017, Single Channel Video with Sound, 5 minutes 37 seconds, Collection of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Orang Laut Ideal 01, 2018, Printed on vinyl and Hahnemühle William Turner