Wild Flowers / Robert Zhao
$18.00
Robert Zhao
Wild Flowers
Self-published, 2023
Bookmark set
Editiong of 500
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 orginally 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.
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Artist Info
Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist and the founder of the Institute of Critical Zoologists. His artistic practice addresses the human relationship with nature challenging accepted parameters of objectivity and scientific modes of classifications.
Zhao received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Photography from Camberwell College of Arts and London College of Communication respectively. His work has been exhibited in international group shows such as Jiwa: Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia, 2017; 7th Moscow Biennale, Russia, 2017; 20th Sydney Biennale, Australia 2016; Les Recontres d’Arles, France, 2015. Amongst his more recent solo exhibitions in Singapore are The Nature Museum, commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Art (SIFA) and The Bizarre Honour, realized for OH! Open House, both in 2017. Zhao has undertaken residencies at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France, and Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, United States, and the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan. He was awarded Young Artist Award by National Arts Council in 2010 and was a finalist of Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2017.
