Yuji de Torres is a Filipino cultural worker. In 2018, he co-founded kiat kiat projects, a nomadic curatorial initiative. He and his co-curator attempt to examine and explore different sites for exhibition-making such as in a suburban home, pizza parlor, e-mail, and on a website. He received his MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art at the National Taipei University of Education. While accomplishing my MA degree, he co-curated an exhibit at the Taipei Digital Art Center entitled 10,000 Flowers, in which Taiwanese and Filipino artists and collectives such as Li Kuei Pi, Con Cabrera, and Tambisan sa Sining were invited to explore notions of newness. He is interested in the analogous struggle of the artistic and social form as articulated by Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuna.
He has participated in seminars which attempted to locate the role of arts and culture in society such as the InterAsia Summer School program hosted by the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and the Art as Politics public program from basis voor actuele kunst in Utretch, Netherlands. He received the Emerging Writers Fellowship from Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia for 2023, and a 2022 Story Fellowship from Better Engagement Between East and Southeast Asia (BEBESEA) x New Naratif. He has also served as the Online Platforms manager of Green Papaya Art Projects, the longest running artist-community-run space in the Philippines.
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