| BY | Robert Zhao Renhui |
| DETAILS | Self-published bookmark set Edition of 500 |
| YEAR | 2023 |
Wild Flowers bookmark set by Robert Zhao
$12.00
Wild Flowers and plants are the unsung characters in urban environments, sprouting from cracks in pavements and walls. In the obscure nooks and corners of Block 261 in Waterloo Street are little sprigs of vegetation growing – attesting to an understated but vibrant ecology co-existing with human architecture. This set of eight bookmarks are produced as part of Robert Zhao’s Wild Flowers, a work depicting these tiny but hardy plants (some as small as 2cm tall) in a series of lightboxes – with taxonomic photographs originally enlarged to many times their actual size for viewers to appreciate the complexity of their design. Printed here as bookmarks, they invite us to do the same through closer observation under light, but between the pages of books. The other side, like in the original work, reflects shades of green taken from plants, providing an aesthetic encounter with their hues.
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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