Date: Friday 1 May 2026
Time: 14:00–17:00
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
To Join: Register via email to info@varia.zone with subject title [Moving Fragments]

Moving Fragments: Visualising your inner message through collage making is a feminist poster making workshop by Yen Yi Lee. The workshop began as a response to Asia Art Archive’s 2005 exhibition, In Our Own Backyards that featured South Asian artists, Lala Rukh and Sheba Chhachhi.

During the workshop, Yen Yi Lee will give a visual analysis presentation about two South Asian artists, Lala Rukhand Sheba Chhachhi, who have not only created artworks but developed tools and sites to mobilise women in their communities to assert their right through visual languages of their own. This will be followed by a collage making activity where participants create their own posters, and culminate with a moment of sharing of the collage and reflections.

Basic materials will be provided but participants are encourage to bring their own printed materials, papers, and magazines that can be used for collage. There will be snacks.

This event falls within Varia’s Counter-Coloniality Seed research thread and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, and also sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation

Yen Yi Lee is an independent curator and writer based in Taipei, Taiwan, and the founder of the art writing publication HAGAI. She holds an MFA from University of Edinburgh. Her long-term curatorial research explores digital culture, the intersections of technology and society, and feminist perspectives on spaces of absence, with a recent turn toward reinterpreting Romanticism. In 2023, she was selected by the Ministry of Culture for a curatorial residency at ISCP in New York. Her curatorial works have been presented at the Filmfest Dresden, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Artist Village, and Digital Art Center Taipei.

image credits
Image 1: Screen printing workshop in Lala Rukh’s backyard, photographed by Lala Rukh, Lahore, 1987. Courtesy of the Estate of Lala Rukh.

Image 2: South Asian Workshop on Women and Development, photographed by Lala Rukh, Koitta, Bangladesh, 1986. Courtesy of the Estate of Lala Rukh.

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In the poster there are two archival photographs with cut out marks around them and a scissors icon in the corner. In one image women and children are dancing together, smiling. In another they are screenprinting as a group with 1 silkscreen between them, it appears they are making an image together. The title of the workshop “Moving Fragments” sits in the middle of the page. It uses a font reminiscent of wood block print. The background has a texture like homemade paper.