TOUCHING THE ETHER
Cherlyn Lee, Eunice Lim, Yu and Loong Zu’er
Group Exhibition
14 — 22 June 2025, 11am — 7pm
"TOUCHING THE ETHER" is a collaboration between artists Cherlyn Lee, Yu, Eunice Lim, and Loong Zu’er, inspired by the relationship between human subjectivity and natural phenomena. Drawing on different material properties and various scientific phenomena, the show explores man-made systems of light, water, and sound through interactive and mobile installations.
The title alludes to an element in ancient cosmology believed to fill all space beyond the moon's sphere, and imagined to constitute the substance of stars, planets and even human bodies.
Using Guy Debord’s "dérive" as a research device, the artists collect and interpret data from everyday life: light rippling through glass, the sound of rainwater and found objects, creating situations where audiences are invited to trace unique pathways through the gallery space and consider the relationship between natural and mechanical systems. The works present themselves as situations meant to be encountered, not just seen.
Audiences are invited to activate the sculptures through play, repose and reflection, engaging our tactile, visual and kinetic senses to excavate hidden connections with nature.
About the Artist(s)
Cherlyn Lee
Cherlyn Lee is an artist interested in the hidden mechanisms of the human mind and body. Her practice embraces representational and abstract styles, characterised by gestural strokes and textile experiments. Through her paintings and mixed-media sculptures, she explores the transitory beauty in loss and change through themes of memory, illness and objecthood. Alongside her interest in multidisciplinary collaboration, Cherlyn hopes to empower those in marginal spaces through socially-engaged research, sparking conversations with audiences through her works.
Eunice Lim
Eunice Lim is an artist working with assemblages. She is interested in the unstable relationship between Self and Other, materialised through objects, space, and the body. She investigates processes of metamorphosis in the unpredictable reactions between textures and forms across painting, sculpture and the screen. She experiments with found objects, broken mechanisms, and accidents that occur by the artist’s hand. Eunice is interested in rhizomatic processes in creation: spontaneous and propagating in a nomadic fashion, and how these reactions can reveal subliminal connections between our subjectivities and the external environment, only possible through chance.
Yu
Yu is a multimedia artist and illustrator. Their eyes are always drawn to the fragile; movements of nature that cannot be arrested. Yet, they find themself desperately chasing its afterimage. This yearning to live is translated to surreal images; whether in print, on canvas or the digital screen. Inspired by observations of everyday experiences and human relationships, Yu approaches their work with a delicate balance between spontaneity and precision.
Loong Zu'er
Loong Zu’er is an artist inspired by the human experience as told through personal and cultural mythologies. She is interested in nature-human relationships expressed through Chinese folk symbolism as seen in a modern context. She explores these interests across traditional and digital mediums such as animation, illustration and sculpture. Through her use of de-contextualised cultural imagery, she hopes to evoke contemplation and observation in her audience.