Bio

Bio

Yee Na (b. January 18, 2001, Malaysia) is an emerging artist whose practice explores themes of memory, emotional healing, and imperfection through installation and mixed media. She graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from Dasein Academy of Art, Malaysia.

Working with everyday tactile materials such as worn fabric, medical stains, natural objects, and scent, her work expresses intangible emotions embedded in daily life. She emphasizes multisensory engagement, inviting viewers to connect through touch, smell, and physical presence.

Rooted in personal experience yet resonating with universal emotions, her work creates quiet, intimate spaces that gently evoke memories and feelings. Guided by a sensitivity to what is often overlooked, she continues to explore the emotional weight carried by ordinary moments.

Artist Statement

My work revolves around memory, emotional healing and imperfection. I primarily create through installation and mixed media, focusing on the texture, scent and emotional weight carried by everyday materials. Worn fabrics, gauze, stained surfaces, branches, foam and subtle scents become vessels for expressing invisible emotions, traces of what has been felt, forgotten or hidden.

I am drawn to the fragmented nature of memory and how it fades, distorts or resurfaces over time. My works are intimate constructions of this emotional residue, inviting viewers to engage not only visually but also physically and inwardly. By activating multiple senses, I hope to create a space that slows time down, a space that is fragile yet honest.

Much of my work stems from personal experience but it also seeks to evoke shared emotions such as fear, fragility, longing and quiet resilience. I am not interested in presenting perfection or answers. Rather, I want to hold space for what is broken, mended and overlooked, suggesting that healing may begin in the smallest most incomplete forms.