Yu Shuk Pui Bobby
is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher exploring the intersections between body, memory, and cultural translation. Her work moves fluidly between collapse and reconstruction, searching for narrative languages activated by trauma—emerging from linguistic failures, bodily overflow, and historical disruptions in the present.
Her practice frequently addresses the unspeakable: postcolonial displacement, inherited illnesses within family systems, emotional ruptures, and intergenerational silence. Through moving image, installation, performance, sound, and text, Bobby dissects the subtle, often inaudible signals embedded within bodies and language. These materials form layered narrative structures, acting as slow and continuous methods of repair.
She does not enter chaos to provoke, but rather to listen—to the suppressed, institutionalized, and forgotten voices. Her studio is simultaneously a diagnostic space, a laboratory, and at times, a site for ritualized empathy.
In recent years, Bobby’s practice has centered on art as a potential method for psychological reconstruction, particularly for individuals navigating the aftermath of cultural dislocation, bodily shame, and inherited silences. She is drawn to transitional and unstable thresholds—between gender binaries, health and illness, the living and the spectral. These uncertain spaces are where her creative language is most activated.
Her long-term project, Genetic Salon, imagines a speculative company that operates through immersive fiction, visual narrative, and sci-fi aesthetics. The project critically investigates contemporary regimes of gender regulation, genetic control, and embodied histories, blurring the boundary between documentary reality and imaginative projection.
Bobby also engages extensively with moving image as a collaborative and relational practice. She develops video-based projects in partnership with migrant communities, women’s collectives, and family members, working at linguistic borders and cultural intersections. Her works inhabit spaces that oscillate between reality and imagination, inviting viewers into processes of disassembly, reconfiguration, and subtle resistance.
Bobby holds a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Shophouse (2024), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2022), Parasite (2017), and Tomorrow Maybe Gallery (2017), all in Hong Kong; VI VII (2024), Podium (2022), Galleri BOA (2021), K4 Gallery (2021), and Kunstnernes Hus (2021), all in Oslo; Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai (2017); A Place Gallery & Studios, Orlando (2016); Youkobo Art Space Gallery, Tokyo (2016); and Listhus Gallery, Ólafsfjörður (2016). In 2023, she was awarded Best Director at the 17th Freshwave Film Festival in Hong Kong.
余淑培是一位藝術家、影像創作者及身體記憶的田野調查者。她的創作在崩解與建構之間游移，從語言卡頓、身體溢出與歷史干擾現實的縫隙中，摸索出一種由創傷啟動的敘事語言。
她的實踐多以「不能說」的經驗為起點——包括殖民陰影下的身份漂移、家庭系統中的身體疾病、文化沉默及代際創傷。她透過錄像、裝置、表演、聲音及文字，拆解潛藏於身體與語言中的無聲訊號。這些媒介構成了交織複雜的敘事結構，同時作為一種緩慢而持續的自我修復方法。
她並非為了挑釁而進入混亂，而是透過混亂去聆聽那些被制度、語言、身體與歷史壓抑的微弱聲音。她將工作室視為診斷空間，也作為一間實驗室，有時甚至是一場共感儀式的現場。
余氏近期持續探索藝術作為心理重建與文化療癒的可能性，尤其關注那些在文化流離、身體羞辱與代際沉默中長大的群體。她傾向跨越各種邊界——性別的、健康與疾病的、生者與幽靈的。這些模糊、暫時且不穩定的臨界點，是她最熟悉且富創造力的棲息之處。
其長期計劃《基因髮廊》（Genetic Salon）以虛構企業與沉浸式敘事的形式，探討當代社會中的性別規訓、身體控制與遺傳敘事的權力結構。此作透過影像、空間設計與文本，模糊真實與想像的邊界，創造介於紀錄與投射之間的敘事空間。
余氏亦廣泛運用錄像作為實踐形式之一，與移民社群、女性團體及家庭成員合作，試圖在語言邊界與文化交錯處開拓敘事空間。她的作品常在真實與想像之間擺盪，邀請觀者參與身份解構與重組的過程。
余氏畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術學士課程，並於奧斯陸國立美術學院取得藝術碩士學位。她的作品曾於國際多個展覽空間展出，包括香港的Para Site、百呎公園、Tomorrow Maybe、1a空間、星計畫與EC畫廊；挪威的Kunstnernes Hus、Galleri BOA、Podium與K4 Gallery；以及上海、東京、佛羅里達州及冰島等地的藝術機構與駐村單位。她的短片作品於2023年第17屆香港鮮浪潮短片節榮獲最佳導演獎。
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is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher exploring the intersections between body, memory, and cultural translation. Her work moves fluidly between collapse and reconstruction, searching for narrative languages activated by trauma—emerging from linguistic failures, bodily overflow, and historical disruptions in the present.
Her practice frequently addresses the unspeakable: postcolonial displacement, inherited illnesses within family systems, emotional ruptures, and intergenerational silence. Through moving image, installation, performance, sound, and text, Bobby dissects the subtle, often inaudible signals embedded within bodies and language. These materials form layered narrative structures, acting as slow and continuous methods of repair.
She does not enter chaos to provoke, but rather to listen—to the suppressed, institutionalized, and forgotten voices. Her studio is simultaneously a diagnostic space, a laboratory, and at times, a site for ritualized empathy.
In recent years, Bobby’s practice has centered on art as a potential method for psychological reconstruction, particularly for individuals navigating the aftermath of cultural dislocation, bodily shame, and inherited silences. She is drawn to transitional and unstable thresholds—between gender binaries, health and illness, the living and the spectral. These uncertain spaces are where her creative language is most activated.
Her long-term project, Genetic Salon, imagines a speculative company that operates through immersive fiction, visual narrative, and sci-fi aesthetics. The project critically investigates contemporary regimes of gender regulation, genetic control, and embodied histories, blurring the boundary between documentary reality and imaginative projection.
Bobby also engages extensively with moving image as a collaborative and relational practice. She develops video-based projects in partnership with migrant communities, women’s collectives, and family members, working at linguistic borders and cultural intersections. Her works inhabit spaces that oscillate between reality and imagination, inviting viewers into processes of disassembly, reconfiguration, and subtle resistance.
Bobby holds a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Shophouse (2024), Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (2022), Parasite (2017), and Tomorrow Maybe Gallery (2017), all in Hong Kong; VI VII (2024), Podium (2022), Galleri BOA (2021), K4 Gallery (2021), and Kunstnernes Hus (2021), all in Oslo; Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai (2017); A Place Gallery & Studios, Orlando (2016); Youkobo Art Space Gallery, Tokyo (2016); and Listhus Gallery, Ólafsfjörður (2016). In 2023, she was awarded Best Director at the 17th Freshwave Film Festival in Hong Kong.
余淑培是一位藝術家、影像創作者及身體記憶的田野調查者。她的創作在崩解與建構之間游移，從語言卡頓、身體溢出與歷史干擾現實的縫隙中，摸索出一種由創傷啟動的敘事語言。
她的實踐多以「不能說」的經驗為起點——包括殖民陰影下的身份漂移、家庭系統中的身體疾病、文化沉默及代際創傷。她透過錄像、裝置、表演、聲音及文字，拆解潛藏於身體與語言中的無聲訊號。這些媒介構成了交織複雜的敘事結構，同時作為一種緩慢而持續的自我修復方法。
她並非為了挑釁而進入混亂，而是透過混亂去聆聽那些被制度、語言、身體與歷史壓抑的微弱聲音。她將工作室視為診斷空間，也作為一間實驗室，有時甚至是一場共感儀式的現場。
余氏近期持續探索藝術作為心理重建與文化療癒的可能性，尤其關注那些在文化流離、身體羞辱與代際沉默中長大的群體。她傾向跨越各種邊界——性別的、健康與疾病的、生者與幽靈的。這些模糊、暫時且不穩定的臨界點，是她最熟悉且富創造力的棲息之處。
其長期計劃《基因髮廊》（Genetic Salon）以虛構企業與沉浸式敘事的形式，探討當代社會中的性別規訓、身體控制與遺傳敘事的權力結構。此作透過影像、空間設計與文本，模糊真實與想像的邊界，創造介於紀錄與投射之間的敘事空間。
余氏亦廣泛運用錄像作為實踐形式之一，與移民社群、女性團體及家庭成員合作，試圖在語言邊界與文化交錯處開拓敘事空間。她的作品常在真實與想像之間擺盪，邀請觀者參與身份解構與重組的過程。
余氏畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術學士課程，並於奧斯陸國立美術學院取得藝術碩士學位。她的作品曾於國際多個展覽空間展出，包括香港的Para Site、百呎公園、Tomorrow Maybe、1a空間、星計畫與EC畫廊；挪威的Kunstnernes Hus、Galleri BOA、Podium與K4 Gallery；以及上海、東京、佛羅里達州及冰島等地的藝術機構與駐村單位。她的短片作品於2023年第17屆香港鮮浪潮短片節榮獲最佳導演獎。
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STUDIES
2019-2021 Oslo National Academy of the Arts / MFA Fine Arts
2015-2018 Hong Kong Baptist University / BA(Hons) Visual Arts
2012-2015 Hong Kong Design Institute / HD Visual Art and Culture
PRIZES AND GRANTS
2023 Best Director - 17th Freshwave Film Festival / Hong Kong
2022 Best Editing - Best Editiing Alternative Film Festiva / Toronto
Scholarship of Snorre Andersen, Maleren Ambrosius Egedius og Hustrus Legat (SAMAEHL) - Young Artists’ Society (UKS) / Norway
2021 Kunstnernes Hus, Fondet for Kunst og Designstudenter (FKDS) - Studio Grant / Norway
2020 King’s College London - Longlist of the Ivan Juritz Prize
2017 AVA HKBU and The Art of CUHK - Honourable Mention of Vitamin D Award / Hong Kong
2014 Golden Sugarcane Film Festival - Best Actress / Taiwan
2013 Art Experience Gallery - 1st First Smash Art Project / Hong Kong
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Young Artists’ Society (UKS) / Oslo Norway
Fotografiens hus - Curses, Human-faced Fish & Sadako Yamamura / Oslo
Open Source Gallery - Future Debt. Return Today. / New York City
2024 VI, VII - Hand in Hand into Havoc / Oslo
The Shophouse / Hong Kong
2023 Kongsberg Kunstforening / Kongsberg Norway
2022 Isotop Felle Atelier / Bergen Norway
Podium - The Remains of Genetic Salon / Oslo
2021 K4 Gallery - Genetic Salon Red Room / Oslo
Post-Human Narratives c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam - Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video interaction) /Online
Skylight KHiO - Genetic Salon PART I (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2019 Skylight KHiO - Genetic Salon Skylight 2019 (solo exhibition) / Oslo
2015 Art Fix Gallery - CV by Vagina / London
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES
2019 Hong Kong Community Radio HKCR - A series of Genetic Salon DJ Conferences (multimedia performance) / Hong Kong
2016 Mjólkurbúðin - Marriage-Seeking 2016 (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan - Examination (performance) / Akureyri
Deiglan - POWER DUMPLINGS (performane) / Akureyri
2014 100ft. Gallery - The Woman (performance) / Hong Kong
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Loftet@Kunstnernes Hus (w/ Ole Petter Ribe )- FKDs Artists Duo Show / Oslo
2019 Akademironmmet (w/ Montserrat Llampallas) c: Jasper Siverts & Emilia Sølvsten - Unstable Monuments (installation) / Oslo
2017 100ft. Gallery (w/ Hui Serene Sze Lok)- Dimension Convertor - Artifical Waterfall (installation) / Hong Kong
2015 EC Gallery (w/ Sunday Lai) c: Jeff Leung - Half Day with Cloud (video installation)/ Hong Kong
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Galleri Hi10 - Video art program / Skien Norway
NADA East Broadway - Norway Scene Report: 24-Hour Sun, 24-Hour Moon / New York City
Blindspot Gallery - Play and Loop VI / Hong Kong
Tenthaus & 413 BETA - Daddy’s Dinner / Oslo & Seoul
The Shophouse - Gentle Again / Hong Kong
2023
QB Gallery / Oslo Norway
2022
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences- Post Human Narratives - In the name of scientific witchery (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) - Genetic Salon (video) / Hong Kong
2021
Karen Leung Foundation - The Extra Odinary Exhibition 2.0 - You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Cattle Depot Artist Village - Post Human Narratives - Common Ground (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) - Genetic Salon (installation) / Hong Kong
BOA - Billedkunstnerne i Oslo og Akershus - Struktura Time (c: Lesia Vasylchenko) - Genetic Salon (installation) / Oslo
SVETOVA 1 - Universal Wilderness (c: Zai Xu) - Genetic Salon Waiting Room (video) / Prague
Kunstnernus Hus - The Great Indoors (c: Pedro Gómez-Egaña) / Oslo
2020
Galleri Seilduken KHiO - SOLASTALGIC / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO - Work the Muscle / Oslo
IESA Gallery - Willful Blindness (c: Yannie Hung & Anna Lataillade) - Wilfully Blindness (video) / Paris
Akademirommet - Hinne - Vase Piece (video) / Oslo
Galleri Seilduken KHiO - Wilfully Blindness Painting Exhibition / Oslo
2019
Liu Art Museum - Strangers (c: Weitzu) / Taichung Taiwan
Kulturmejeriet - Fragile: the 2nd Röbäck Biennale (c: Audrius Pocius) / Umeå
Tomorrow Maybe Gallery - Yummy Gummy (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong
Form Society & Hong Kong Artist Union - Drum & Voice Out! (c: Wong Ka Ying) / Hong Kong
2018
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU - Bad Grade Exhibition / Hong Kong
2017 Power Station of Art & Swatch Art Peach Hotel - LIGHT UP Therapy Resort (c: Tiffany Fung & Lu Siqiao) / Shanghai
Koo Ming Kwan Gallery HKBU - Plane Stories / Hong Kong
1a Space - Plentiful Pluralities / Hong Kong
Para-site - In Search of Miss Ruthless (c: Hera Chan & David Xu Borgonjon) - / Hong Kong
Kai Tak Campus HKBU - AVA BA Graduation Exhibition / Hong Kong
2016
Listhús Gallery - Group Exhibition / Ólafsfjördur Iceland
A Place Gallery & Studio - AGENCIES: embodiment / Florida
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Art Gallery - Dada Lives! / Ohio
Youkobo Art Space Gallery - Feminist Fan in Japan and Friends / Tokyo
2015
starproject - Perpetual Production & Consumption (c: Cecilia Lee) - You’re so SMALL, so CHINESE (sculpture) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre - Book in Times: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong
2014
Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity - Macy is Homed (c: Ho Yuen) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre - Outside Reading: Book Art Exhibition / Hong Kong
Hong Kong Design Institute - New Voices Talent Show / Hong Kong
2013
Art Experience Gallery - 1st First Smash (c: Aries Chan) / Hong Kong
Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre - Eggwich / Hong Kong
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2024 29th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards (ifva)
2023 17th Hong Kong Freshwave Film Festival & Competition
2021 ARCTIC MOVING IMAGE & FILM FESTIVAL(AMIFF) / Norway
SELECTED FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS
2023
FUTURES - Europe-based photography platform
Oslo Negative
2021
Vigeland Musuem - Perfection/Speculation (c: PRAKSIS & Karmaklubb) / Norway
2019
ROM for Art and Architecture - Performance Art Oslo Festival / Hong Kong
2017
Connecting Space - Accidental Tourist Guide - Officealley (installation) / Hong Kong
2016
Hong Kong Art Gallery Association - The Gallery Walk - The Stretcher (performance) / Hong Kong
Listasumar - A! Performance Art Festival / Akureyri
RóT Project / Akureyri
Listasumar - Summer Art Festival / Akureyri
2015
Chorm Art - Tribe 15 Art Festival (c: Bea Kozlowska & Kris Cieslak) / London
7th Passion of Freedom / London
2012
7th YMCArts Wonder Land Festival / Hong Kong
SELECTED ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2024 PARADISE AIR / Tokyo
2021 PRAKSIS - Perfection/Speculation / Oslo
USF Bergen Artist in Residence / Bergen
2019 Lakkos Artists Residency / Crete
Athena Standards Residency / Athens
2016 Listhús Space / Ólafsfjördur
3331 Art Chiyoda / Tokyo
2014 435 Art Studio / Taipei
SPEECHES & ARTIST TALKS
2022 Para-Site - P.S. Studio Visit (c: Kobe Ko Wing Lam) /Online
2021 Radio Tenthaus (w/ Wei Ting Zeng and Jinbin Chen) / Oslo
Asian Art Museum - After Hope Symposium / San Francisco
Post-Human Narratives - Artist Talk ft. ‘The Birth of Vtuber Riffisa’ / Online
PRAKSIS - Perfection/Speculation Panel Discussion: Discussing genes, memes and the modifiable body / Oslo
Royal College of Art - Fashion+Solstice 21 / London
2018 The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
PUBLICATIONS
2013 DOING - Independent Publishing / Hong Kong
2012 YOUTH - YMCAarts / Hong Kong