| CONCEIVED BY | The Institute of Critical Zoologists |
| DESIGNED BY | H55 in Singapore |
| PHOTOS BY | Robert Zhao Renhui |
| DETAILS | 14.5cm x 18.5cm x 1cm (Thick) Edition of 500 64 pages, 63 images. Hard Cover. ISBN: 978-981-18-3978-8 |
| YEAR | 2022 |
New Worlds by Robert Zhao
$58.00
From the window of my high-rise flat, I can see several green spaces. One of them is a small and lush green island bordered by several roads, and further away, a larger secondary forest. During Singapore’s Covid-19 lockdown, I spent a lot of time looking at them.
In December 2020, the secondary forest started being cleared. At around the same time, I spotted a wild boar in the green island building a nest, preparing to give birth. She must have been evicted from the secondary forest, and her journey to her new home would have involved crossing several roads. In the end, this mother pig gave birth to six piglets. The secondary forest is now mostly gone. In the green island, I occasionally see the odd wild boar surfacing from the sides of the greenery.
Images of deforestation outside my window, with a wild boar giving birth in a nearby forest during the same period. View from my window, December 2020.
Archival images of deforestation in Singapore.
About Robert Zhao Renhui
Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the complex and commingled relationships between nature and culture. Working across installation, photography, video and sculpture, Zhao is interested in the multifarious beings and objects that constitute the living world, and whose experiences and knowledge enrich our collective existence.
Zhao has held solo exhibitions, The Forest Institute (2022) at Gillman Barracks, Singapore and Monuments in the Forest at ShanghART Gallery (2023) in Shanghai. His latest work is a performance installation titled Albizia (2023), commissioned by Esplanade– Theatres on the Bay. He has also been featured in the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), 10th Busan Biennale (2020), 6th Singapore Biennale (2019), 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2018), 11th Taipei Biennale (2018), 17th Jakarta Biennale (2017) and 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016).
In 2010, Zhao received the prestigious National Arts Council Young Artist Award, Singapore’s highest award for young arts practitioners aged 35 and below. He was also a finalist for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award in 2017.
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