Hester is a artist-researcher based in London and Beijing. Her practice explores labour, displacement, migration and histories at the periphery of visibility.
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Her recent projects have centered on port cities and their colonial entanglements, tracing the shifting contours of transnational belonging.
In 2022, Hester co-founded Sine Screen, an independent screening collective dedicated to showing moving image works from across East and Southeast Asia.
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Selected Exhibitions & Awards
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2024
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Ghost Dance [group exhibition], Jimei x Arles Photography Festival, Xiamen
All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain [group exhibition], Migration Museum, London
Screening as part of Screening Rights Festival, MAC Birmingham
From (Counter-)Archives to Activation [exhibition], esea contemporary, Manchester
Seeing Double, part of Foreign Bodies [group exhibition], Exeter
Three Shadows Photography Award [exhibition], Beijing
New Contemporaries [group exhibition], Camden Arts Centre, London
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2023
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New Contemporaries [group exhibition], Grundy Gallery, Blackpool
Royal Photographic Society IPE Awards (shortlisted)
Screening as part of Liverpool Independent Biennial, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
OUTPUT Gallery Photography Open [exhibition], The Bridewell Studios, Liverpool
Lucky Number 8 [group exhibition], The Bomb Factory, London
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2022
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Current Obsessions, MA graduate show, London College of Communication, 2022
BBC New Creatives showcase [group exhibition], ICA, 2022
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Film & curatorial projects
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Sine Screen | Vulnerable Histories, 2024 - 2025
Whose Homeland film season, 2023
BFI London Film Festival shorts programme, 2023
Tomorrow's History shorts programme, Close-up cinema, 2023
Barbican Chronic Youth Film Festival, 2023
A Kind of Queer Utopia - Queer East, 2023
Whose Homeland screening, FACT Liverpool 2022
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Social media handle
Ig: @_retseh @sine_screen
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Contact: hesteryangishere@gmail.com
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