Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year: Charmaine Poh

A Windows startup chime plays and a twelve-year-old girl appears on screen. She is E-Ching, the character Charmaine Poh played on a Singapore children's detective series in the early 2000s, rebuilt as a deepfake from YouTube clips. She talks about strangers' comments on her body, glitches as she speaks, and signs off: "To all the little girls, may we all win."

This is Poh's first solo show in Italy, the prize show for Deutsche Bank's 2025 Artist of the Year, in MUDEC Photo. The centrepiece is The Moon is Wet, a 24-minute, three-screen video tying the sea goddess Mazu to the Majie, domestic workers who migrated from southern China, and to an Indonesian domestic worker in Singapore today.

You'll be watching more than looking here: the two main videos run 24 and 14 minutes. Entry is free, Thursdays run to 22:30, last entry is an hour before closing, and it ends on 1 November.