Yellow-bellied

“Yellow-bellied” explores the use of flesh beyond its relationship with the body, and urges the audience to embrace the comfortable distance we place between the idea of “us” and “flesh”.

By presenting flesh in various forms, the works present the body as a site that can be both assigned and stripped of value – embracing an instinctual, anticipatory fear.

The exhibition’s name refers to the quality of cowardice or being faint-of-heart. Utilising flesh as a recurring motif in this body of work, the artists first establish an atmosphere of familiarity, and second use it as a medium to evoke a visceral unease. Varying scales of the works are curated to set the absurdist tone of the exhibition, where the audience is first greeted by a downsized realistic form, then confronted by an oversized mass of flesh.

The exhibition hence invites audiences to explore what happens when flesh is revoked from…