artist bio
Singapore-born, Brazil-based, Juliette Yu-Ming is a filmmaker, visual artist and anthropologist. Holding a Master’s in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics, and as a scholar at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro, her work engages with local communities, cinema and the world of contemporary art.
After a career switch from international development to the visual arts, Juliette has directed award-winning documentaries, fiction, videoart and dance films that have been screened in over 20 international festivals.
As a painter and Butoh dancer, she investigates in the relation between the body and its memories and questions of being and becoming. She has performed dance-interventions in different venues - from the stage to the street, from universities to psychiatric hospitals. She is interested in combining her dance and painting with new media, and is collaborating with emerging video-mappers and programmers in Brazil on new projects.
Having lived in rural India and Nepal, post-tsunami Aceh, remote indigenous villages in Brazil, and cities like London, Paris and Singapore, she has always grappled with questions of displacement and multiple identities in a postmodern world. It is these very questions that she explores in her work.
After a career switch from international development to the visual arts, Juliette has directed award-winning documentaries, fiction, videoart and dance films that have been screened in over 20 international festivals.
As a painter and Butoh dancer, she investigates in the relation between the body and its memories and questions of being and becoming. She has performed dance-interventions in different venues - from the stage to the street, from universities to psychiatric hospitals. She is interested in combining her dance and painting with new media, and is collaborating with emerging video-mappers and programmers in Brazil on new projects.
Having lived in rural India and Nepal, post-tsunami Aceh, remote indigenous villages in Brazil, and cities like London, Paris and Singapore, she has always grappled with questions of displacement and multiple identities in a postmodern world. It is these very questions that she explores in her work.