S.E.A. artists highlighted at Silverlens

Dina Gadia, Yee I-Lann, Maria Taniguchi and Mit Jai Inn are the SEA artists highlighted in the exhibit All States No State. In the region, artists often come together through informal networks, establishing communities and collectives that become long-term structures of artistic collaboration and exchange. Such is the practice of all three artists. The title is taken from a series of flags of imagined countries made by Gadia.

Dina Gadia is an artist based in Manila with a cult following.  Known for satire, she makes paintings and prints sourced from comics, schoolbooks and magazines from the American post-war period. She slices, then reconstructs narratives of a tricky relationship that was troubled from the moment it began.

I-Lann Yee (Kota Kinabalu) is a mid-career artist who grabbed the moment of the pandemic to stay home and make work with her communities. Always…