A painter by training, Fyerool Darma is an artist who integrates sound, video, new media, sculpture, texts and craft practices into images. He has gradually developed a complex visual vocabulary that draws from sources including tangible and intangible malay heritage, archives, the Internet, literature, popular culture, the history of craft, visual arts, manufacturing, and manual labor, by repurposing salvaged textiles, e-waste, found images, paintings, and other materials as a collaborative process with other artists to blur the boundaries of authorship in his works.
fyerool’s recent presentations include, Factory of Tomorrow at Center of Heritage, Art and Textile in Hong Kong (2024); Refuge: Lagos Biennale (2024), THIS TOO IS A MAP! Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023); Archipelagic Futurism: and land erode into..., Calle Wright, Manila (2023); Radio Malaya: Abridged Conversations About Art, National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum (permanent); and Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore (2022-2023).
fyerool’s ongoing research into modernist forms and Southeast Asian vocabularies is encapsulated in an ongoing project - l♥ndsc♥p€$ (2019-ongoing), that synthesises with an earlier project After Ballads (2017-2018). he continues to live and work in Singapore, dividing ___ time teaching art to youths at a non-profit organisation situated in Yung Sheng Rd., and attending to his family and caring for a testudine that was rescued.
fyerool conducted After Ballads, between 2017 to 2018 as part of the NUS Museum’s prep-room. Later between October 2019 to April 2020, he was an Artist-in-Residence at NTU - Centre of Contemporary Art Singapore where he presented Vivarium (wii fl∞w w/ l4if but t4k£ ø forms, ♥) at the Centre’s Vitrine. In 2022, he was an applicant for the National Library Creative Residency - where he reads and listens to traces of loom productions in Singapore amidst the industrialization of Malaya. He is currently in residence at Absolute Art Space AiR Programme in Tainan City, Taiwan.
fyerool’s recent presentations include, Factory of Tomorrow at Center of Heritage, Art and Textile in Hong Kong (2024); Refuge: Lagos Biennale (2024), THIS TOO IS A MAP! Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023); Archipelagic Futurism: and land erode into..., Calle Wright, Manila (2023); Radio Malaya: Abridged Conversations About Art, National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum (permanent); and Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore (2022-2023).
fyerool’s ongoing research into modernist forms and Southeast Asian vocabularies is encapsulated in an ongoing project - l♥ndsc♥p€$ (2019-ongoing), that synthesises with an earlier project After Ballads (2017-2018). he continues to live and work in Singapore, dividing ___ time teaching art to youths at a non-profit organisation situated in Yung Sheng Rd., and attending to his family and caring for a testudine that was rescued.
fyerool conducted After Ballads, between 2017 to 2018 as part of the NUS Museum’s prep-room. Later between October 2019 to April 2020, he was an Artist-in-Residence at NTU - Centre of Contemporary Art Singapore where he presented Vivarium (wii fl∞w w/ l4if but t4k£ ø forms, ♥) at the Centre’s Vitrine. In 2022, he was an applicant for the National Library Creative Residency - where he reads and listens to traces of loom productions in Singapore amidst the industrialization of Malaya. He is currently in residence at Absolute Art Space AiR Programme in Tainan City, Taiwan.