Juliette Yu-Ming

Juliette Yu-Ming is a visual artist and dancer, born in Singapore and based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2010. After studying anthropology and starting a career in development and humanitarian aid, she discovered her passion for the moving image, first through documentary filmmaking then by combining it with other art forms. Having danced Butoh for several years, Juliette uses her corporal expression to create performance-based video-art, video-dance and video-installations. Her experience living in over ten countries, from rural India and Nepal, tsunami-stricken provinces of Indonesia and remote indigenous villages in Brazil, to globalized cities like London, Paris and Singapore, has made her grapple with questions of displacement, uprootedness and our cultural multiplicities in a postmodern world. It is these very questions that she explores in her work.