Neo Jing Yi Sabrina 


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Sabrina Neo is a Singapore-based artist. Her practice includes drawing, printmaking, photography, and installation. Focusing a lot on mental health, emotional memory, and the body’s response to psychological tension. With focus on subtlety and self-reflexivity, she always engages in repetition, layering, and physical labor as modes of self expression.

Sabrina is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), majoring in Printmaking and Drawing. She has presented her work at the Korean Competition (2021), Selegie Arts Centre and NAFA Open House (2023), In:Construction (2024), and The Grad Expectations (2024): Venture Boldly at Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries. She collaborated with the Victoria College of the Arts on A Catalyst for Victory, a cross-institutional project exploring speculative futures and urban transformation (2023).My artistic practice moves in the quiet tension between internal and external realities. Revolving around emotional imprints, personal rituals, and the in between spaces. Installation, photography, and conceptual forms are used when I explore into how mental health can affect the body, memory, and daily life. Involving repetition, stillness, and subtle disruptions in my artworks in hopes to invite viewers into a state of reflection and discomfort. Revealing what is often unspoken or unseen, I aim to give form to psychological states I experienced that are unexplainable by words. 



Title: Unlove
Year: 2026
Medium: Video Installation
Statement:

This work explores anhedonia through the observation of mundane, mechanical objects that operate repetitively without emotional response. The video presents everyday infrastructural elements like the traffic lights, escalators, lifts, automated lighting, filmed from a distance and shown as a silent loop.

The footage is deliberately flat and non-expressive. Camera movement, sound, and close framing are avoided to maintain objectivity and emotional distance. By focusing on systems that continue functioning regardless of human presence, the work reflects ongoing activity without pleasure or reward. Projected onto the ceiling, the work remains outside direct address, existing without narrative progression, emphasis, or demand for engagement.