Yeo Workshop is delighted to bring together the works of Mike HJ Chang and Edward Clydesdale Thomson in the new exhibition titled The Body and the Seed. With bright hues and hints of play, the gallery presents work that considers the body’s orientation within space and the landscape. The human body is interpreted through forms and perspectives that are unconventional, uncanny or even tangential. Painting and wallpaper provide the limbs, movements and angles through which a fresh conception of the human body can be glimpsed.
Mike HJ Chang’s striking new series of five watercolour paintings press the body into jarring corners and colours, as it navigates the interstices between recognisable, urban Singapore and more abstract
dimensions. Clashing lines lead into each other, according to an asynchronous rhythm. Cartoons and mismatched contours end in tragic, difficult and awkward points. Figures sprawl over park benches, snakes disguise themselves as humans, and the body is spun around every which way. Thus, Chang pushes the limit of optical comfort, challenging and disorienting the viewer as much as he does the fictional body in his own imaginary spaces.
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