Ian Teh - National Gallery Singapore – Gallery Benefit 2023 New York Friday, November 10, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the artist and Silvana S. Foundation

  • Catalogue Essay

    Estimates for this auction are in United States (US) dollars.
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    Interrogating the impact of industrialisation on the environment, Ian Teh embarked on his panoramic series Traces I, which captures the vastly transformed landscapes around the Yellow River in China. Farmland captures a scene from Linfen, one of the most polluted cities in the world and a key site for coal production in China. Whilst the soil here was once fertile, toxins and noxious waste have since seeped into the earth. Eerily monochromatic, Farmland’s ghostly hue can be attributed to the dust, which infamously coats every surface and saturates the air in the region.

    Deeply engaged with environmental and social issues, Teh has gained international recognition for his award-winning documentary photography, which has been featured in publications such as National Geographic, The New Yorker, Bloomberg Businessweek and Granta. His works are part of permanent collections in the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Hood Museum, North Hampshire.

    This lot is physically located in Singapore.

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Farmland. Linfen, Shanxi, China.

photographic pigment print
work 52 x 160 cm. (20 1/2 x 62 7/8 in.)
frame 54 x 162 cm. (21 1/4 x 63 3/4 in.)

Executed in 2010, this work is number 2 from an edition of 8.

Estimate
$5,500 - 7,000 

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National Gallery Singapore – Gallery Benefit 2023

10-18 November 2023