A painter by training, Fyerool Darma (b. 1987, Singapore) is an artist who integrates sound, video, new media, sculpture, texts and craft practices into his recent installations, which juxtapose the aesthetics and ideology of modernism alongside south east asian cultures, histories, aesthetics, and politics. He has gradually developed a complex visual vocabulary that draws from sources including tangible and intangible malay heritage, archives, the Internet, literature, popular culture, the history of craft, visual arts, manufacturing, and manual labor.
He repurposes salvaged textiles, e-waste, found images, paintings, and other materials as a collaborative process with other artists and producers to blur the boundaries of authorship in his works.
Fyerool’s ongoing research into modernist forms and Southeast Asian vocabularies is encapsulated in an ongoing project – l入ndsc_p€$ (2019-ongoing), that synthesises with an earlier project After Ballads (2017-2018). fyær d’s works collectively evoke the complex history and reverbs of colonialism, postwar techno-military-industrialisation, and contemporary climate crisis, situated amid a tropical post-apocalyptic and post-Internet landscape.
(Bio excerpt and profile picture provided by Yeo Workshop, courtesy of Wardah Mohamad.)
Writings:
Nice Buenaventura, Fyerool Darma, Critic’s Picks, Artforum.