Artist Bobby Yu on psychological safety, grappling with family trauma, shifting viewpoints through critiquing, and her Daddy’s Dinner.
Genetic Salon - Waiting Room, 2021 (far left: Bobby Yu)
Ep.58 | Artist Bobby Yu returned from Oslo to Hong Kong and I caught up with her. We discussed how her current collaborative project Daddy dinner with two migrated artists Jacky Jana-Yuan Kuo and Jinbin Chen attempts to uncover her family’s history, how art critiquing helped her confidence, and we talked about her role as an artist to address unspoken trauma.
Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is a visual artist who now based in Hong Kong and Oslo. Bobby’s practice is focused on building intimate relationships and collaborations, where physical, tangible and affective phenomena associated with biotechnology and the future are created by the media of video, text, installation, sculpture, and performance. She often use speculative fiction within the themes of human genetic engineering to refigure perceptions towards gender, body and historical discourses of identity.
In recent years, Bobby has started to work on video making with different communities as a means of exploring identity construction in various cultural contexts and collective aspects. Through realizing fictional narratives, she describe real experiences of desire and identification.
Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and MFA at Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. She has exhibited her works at Parasite, 100ft. Gallery, starprojects, 1a Space, Tomorrow Maybe Gallery, EC Gallery (Hong Kong);Kunstnernes Hus, Galleri BOA, Podium, K4 Gallery(Oslo); A Place Gallery & Studios (Florida); Youkobo Art Space Gallery (Tokyo); Swatch Art Peach Hotel (Shanghai); Listhus Gallery (Iceland).
The 17th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival 2023
Screening date, time and location:
11/6 (Sun) | 17:40 HKT
17/6 (Sat) | 15:00 HKT
21/6 (Wed) | 19:40 HKT
www.freshwave.hk
Genetic Salon - The Remains of Genetic Salon, Bobby Yu, 2022
Genetic Salon - DJ Conference, Bobby Yu, 2018-2019
Daddy’s Dinner, Bobby Yu, 2023
Website https://yushukpui.com
Instagram @bobbyyushukpui
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