Lan “Florence” Yee’s interdisciplinary practice draws on writing and unassuming imagery to permeate the slippery ends of meaning. Through a wide range of media, including oil painting, textile embroidery, sculptural installation, electronic signage, and photography, each are grounded together by unearthing speculative bonds between the historical and personal.

In Yee’s words, “My text-based artwork borrows the anonymous pen of templates, signage, and forms, while displacing their functions through skeptical experiences. The often ironic and humorous tones in the language recognize the limits of their own structure, and sustain a necessary uncertainty. The intimacy of this doubt gives me the space to interrogate the echoes that make up queer diasporic memory. Rather than looking at the height of grand moments, I prefer to investigate their systemic origins, and what continues to leak in the aftermath.

My practice uses the double-edged sword of visibility and recognition to explore how we may queer desirability. It attempts to step around easy signifiers of legibility with sparse retellings, obscured patterns, and frequent interruptions. Away from the flattening effect of nostalgia, I seek to deromanticize linear narratives of intergenerational knowledge by showcasing awkwardness, repetition and dead ends.”