MM Yu has worked between photography and painting since obtaining her degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines in 2001. Her works in both media tackle the nuances achieved between composition and color as they occupy the frame. Primarily drawn to street photography and documenting the everyday, her photographs evoke the ever-changing cultural texture and topology of Manila as seen through its inhabitants, the city’s infrastructure and its waste-product as it archives not only the economy but also the ecology of life in the myriad forms it takes in the city.
The hybrid and density of MM Yu’s subjects remind us of how objects and signs are not necessarily self-contained but take part in larger systems of interaction. These recorded static scenarios show through their thematic variety the artist’s interest in discovering and valuing the fleeting moment present. Through her ongoing interest in deciphering the unseen landscape of ordinary things, they also force us to rethink what our minds already know and rediscover what our eyes have already seen.
Yu is a recipient of the CCP 13Artist Award 2009, Ateneo Art Awards 2007, Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist 2010 and Goethe Institute Climate Change workshop grant 2014.
She received her BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines and completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003), Common Room Bandung Residency Grant (2007) and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France (2013).
No End | 2023
By MM Yu
Edition 2 of 5 | 16.5cm (l) x 16.5cm (w) x 3.5cm (h) | Wooden Box, 30 Prints, Thumbdrive 1422 × 800, 3 mins 6 secs
By MM Yu
Edition 2 of 5 | 16.5cm (l) x 16.5cm (w) x 3.5cm (h) | Wooden Box, 30 Prints, Thumbdrive 1422 × 800, 3 mins 6 secs
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