Yee I-Lann (born 1971) is a Malaysian contemporary artist known for her works using photography, collage, film, collaborative weaving, and everyday objects.
[1] In the early 1990s, Yee left Malaysia for studies at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, obtaining a BA in Visual Art with a major in photography and a minor in cinematography.
[6] At the Annexe Wing of the Central Market Building in Kuala Lumpur, Yee's long-term collaborator Nani Kahar set up the architecture firm, DNA Studio, becoming a play space that gave rise to labDNA, a collective consisting of Yee, Nani Kahar, and media design lecturer Colleen Macklin.
[6] Following To Catch A Cloud, subsequent projects held between July and October 1997 saw the use of rave music as a means of transforming one's experience to space and other bodies.
[6] The first was Suburbia Panics, held at a colonial bungalow turned restaurant The Kapitan's Club, followed by Urban Paranoia on the rooftop of a corporate building, Menara IMC.
[6] Yee would exhibit the series at her first solo show at a commercial gallery in Kuala Lumpur, marking the start of her career as a professional artist.
[5] In a 2013 photocollage series titled Picturing Power, Yee mixed colonial-era and contemporary images to suggest a Malaysian present still dictated by an unresolved colonial history.
[4] In the context of these collaborations, the woven mat is seen as a local, egalitarian, democratic, and feminist platform; a shared experience of intimacy tied to everyday life and ritual.