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In highly urbanised Singapore, where everything is perfectly planned and nature is meticulously constructed, Robert Zhao Renhui directs his attention to secondary forests, approximately 20 per cent of the nation’s land mass.

While these wooded areas — which have regenerated through primarily natural processes after human-caused disturbances, such as timber harvesting or agriculture clearing — perform important ecological functions like supporting biodiversity and carbon capture, they are viewed as inferior to primary forests and less protected.

He takes viewers on visual expeditions from the perspective of the secondary forest itself, where vestiges of buildings interweave with native and foreign flora and fauna.

Fascinated by the resilience of these green spaces, he aims to challenge the criteria that determine what is “wild” and “human”.

Deftly navigating the space between fact and fiction, he d