a Saigon-based art residency, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut
Ho Chi Minh City, and support from Amanaki Thao Dien

Annabelle Yep

Annabelle Yep is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from Hong Kong, currently based in New York City. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Skidmore College. Her work combines her interdisciplinary interests in phenomenology, sociology, and critical theory to explore embodiment, borders, desire, and abjection. Influenced by abstract expressionism, textual abstraction, and feminist body art, she merges drawing, mixed media, and writing to create abstract, affective landscapes carrying tension-filled forms and narratives. She is primarily focused on implicating the body in art.

Her practice combines experimentation with drawing, ink, paper, and words to explore the intersections of desire, abjection, and embodiment. At the same time, her work also contemplates the remoteness created by language and culture, as influenced by her time in Vietnam, where the distance that exists between her and the local environment has deepened her reflection on the universality of human experience. Hence, in her research and works, she traces the contours of corporal reality, inviting viewers to question the boundaries of desire, shame, and the purpose of art itself.