Yellow-bellied
Ashley Leong, Connor Cheai, Jadis Tan, Kate Lim, Shu-Myin Lim
Group Exhibition
3 – 12 July 2026, 11am – 7pm
“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 a material body, and reflect on the fear that the vacillating forms of flesh evokes.
About the Artist(s)
Ashley is a multimedia artist whose practice centres on organic texture and tactility. She works across mediums to create surfaces that feel as much as they look, drawing the viewer into a physical relationship with the work. Her explorations with realism serve to elicit a sense of familiarity and unease through distortion.
Connor Cheai is an artist whose works explore intense emotions and their various manifestations. Through mixed-media, he leans into visceral imagery– hoping to capture the fervor of feelings and elicit raw reactions from the audience.
Jadis Tan is an artist whose interest lies in the exploration of one’s relationship with the self– revolving her practice around the distortion of the material body as a mirror of mind’s fragility. By delving into the body’s disquieting territory, she hopes to utilize it as a tool for introspection and spark conversations regarding our definitions of authenticity, alongside how we are continuously shaped by the environment around us.
Kate Lim is a multimedia artist. She seeks to explore the human condition, specifically the emotional, physical, and social dimensions of ageing and mortality.
Shu-Myin Lim is an artist intrigued by the physical body in bridging experience to memory, emotion, and value. Primarily working across sculpture and digital media, she utilises the fluid medium through contorting and manipulating the physical body, attempting to capture relationships between the human and non-human through our physicality.