BA (Beijing Film Academy); Erika Tan (Chinese: 陈丽可; pinyin: Chén Líkě; born 1967) is a London-based Singaporean contemporary artist and curator whose research-led practice emerges from her interests in anthropology and the moving image.
[1][2][3] Her recent research examines the postcolonial and transnational, working with archival artefacts, exhibition histories, received narratives, contested heritage, subjugated voices, and the movement of ideas, people and objects.
[7] Guided by notions of aesthetic cannibalism, the installation examines the contingent rules and contexts of the colonial museum in Malaya as it came to be framed in the 19th century, alongside its continuations in the postcolonial present.
[1][4] At the Artist and Empire: (En)countering Colonial Legacies exhibition at National Gallery Singapore from October 2016–March 2017, Tan's commissioned installation, The Weavers Lament Part I – IV would be shown.
[10] In 2017, Tan's video works Apa Jika, The Mis-placed Comma (I, II, III) were developed for the digital long-term exhibition, unrealised, at National Gallery Singapore.