Name: Screening and Discussion: May All The Little Girls Win
Start: 2025-09-30T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-30T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art

Screening and Discussion: May All The Little Girls Win

Catch a screening of Charmaine Poh’s short films, followed by discussion. Poh’s work examines agency, repair, and the body across worlds.
About this Event

Enjoy a screening of artist Charmaine Poh’s short films and a post-screening discussion in this special event organized with the Goethe-Institut Washington.

Working across film, photography, media, and performance, Charmaine Poh examines ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. Her work is also influenced by Eastern philosophy, media criticism, and cyberfeminism.

Order of Screenings

Kin (2021, digital film, 2:54 min.)
What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world (2024, 4K digital film, 14:30 min.)
public solitude (2022, 2-channel digital video, synthetic media, 4:00 min.)
GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY (2023, performance-lecture digital video, synthetic media, 6:23 min.)
in the shadow of the cosmic (2023, performance-lecture, 30:00 min.)
About Charmaine Poh
Charmaine Poh (b. 1990) is an artist from Singapore working across media, moving image, and performance to peel apart, interrogate, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity.

She has exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, Blindspot Gallery, REDCAT LA, Huis Marseille, and the 60th Venice Biennale “Foreigners Everywhere,” among others. In 2019, she was one of Forbes Asia’s 30 under 30 in the arts. Her work has been collected by Vega Foundation, Sunpride Foundation, and KADIST. She was recently named Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year for 2025.

Based in Berlin and Singapore, she is a co-founder of the magazine Jom and a member of Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR).

Charmaine is currently working on two video-based works, THE MOON IS WET and A IS FOR ANDRA. A IS FOR ANDRA is an experimental documentary on an Indonesian trans public figure, and THE MOON IS WET examines cosmologies and migrant histories through three femme figures in Singapore.

About Goethe-Institut WashingtonAs the global cultural institution of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Goethe-Institut advocates for understanding between Germany, Europe, and the world.

Image courtesy of Mohammad Fadli.