In this primarily visual essay, I consider the ways in which Yee I-Lann’s art revisits the colonial archive in an attempt to affect our understanding of its geographic, social and historical implications. Stitching together concerns about time, space and feelings, Yee I-Lann’s work addresses Southeast Asia’s history of colonial practices through her method of ‘speculative photomontage’, creating speculative moments to suggest new meanings within past and present contexts. In so doing, her work opens up the single photographic moment in time by recontexualizing and recombining signifiers of memory, landscape, personal, and social histories, emotional and political affiliations through her photomontage process. The visuality of her approach facilitates alternative – and affective – ways of seeing the ripple effects of histories and geographies.

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Yee I-Lann：蒙太奇作为对图

在这篇主要的视觉文章中，我考虑了伊一兰的艺术重新审视殖民档案的方式，以试图影响我们对其地理，社会和历史意义的理解。Yee I-Lann的作品将对时间，空间和感觉的关注结合在一起，通过她的“投机性蒙太奇”方法探讨了东南亚殖民地实践的历史，创造了投机性时刻，以在过去和现在的语境中提出新的含义。这样一来，她的工作就可以通过摄影蒙太奇的过程，将记忆，风景，个人和社会历史，情感和政治背景等事物的含义重新组合和重新组合，从而打开单个摄影时刻。她的方法的直观性促进了观察历史和地理的连锁反应的另类方法和情感方法。