Zhao renhui biography of williams
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Mynas
by Robert Zhao Renhui
Photographs: Robert Zhao Renhui
Publisher: The Institute of Critical Zoologists
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Pictures: 22
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Comments: Softcover with Wrap around, designed by H55 in Singapore, 23 x 30 cm
"At 7pm every day, thousands of Javan Mynas descend onto trees along Orchard Road, a major shopping and tourist district in Singapore. They have been the bane of retailers and shoppers for the past few years, dirtying pavements with their droppings and emitting a ferocious noise with their collective squawking.
Great congregations of Javan Mynas are not uncommon in Singapore. A colonising species, the Indonesian bird was first introduced to Singapore as pets in the s. Now they have out-competed its larger relative, the Common Myna, to became the most common bird in Singapore.
I spent a month in a tree trying to photograph these birds."
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Book Launch, New Worlds, New Forest 2 at Singapore Art Book Fair
29th April
New Worlds
From the window of my high-rise flat, I can see several green spaces. One of them is a small and lush green island bordered by several roads, and further away, a larger secondary forest. During Singapore's Covid lockdown, inom spent a lot of time looking at them.
In månad , the secondary forest started being cleared. At around the same time, I spotted a wild boar in the green island building a nest, preparing to give birth. She must have been evicted from the secondary forest, and her journey to her new home would have involved crossing several vägar. In the end, this mother pig gave birth to six piglets. The secondary forest fryst vatten now mostly gone. In the green island, I occasionally see the odd wild boar surfacing from the sides of the greenery.
Images of deforestation outside my window, with a wild boar giving birth in a nearby forest
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Robert Zhao Renhui: When Worlds Collide () and the Institute of Critical Zoologists
Robert Zhao Renhui, Rock Pigeon (Columba livia), diasec inwooden frame 42xcm,
All images courtesy of the artist and ShanghART Gallery.
When Worlds Collide () is amultimedia installation created by Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui(b) for the Taipei Biennial.[1] The work, which is theartistic documentation and outcome of the artist’s fieldwork in Taiwan, Greece and Germany, questions our paradoxical and complex relationship with nature and animals against the backdrop of globalization, massive flux of migrations and rapid urbanization. It mainly consists of photographs and artefacts related to insects, pests, amphibians and birds displayed as if they were part of anatural museum’s collection.
The installation is presented by The Institute for Critical Zoologists (ICZ), a creative scientific and pluri-disciplinary platform founded by Zhao in , officially initiated in by a Ja