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Choreographed Collisions
by Galerie Steph
Location: Galerie Steph
Artist(s): YEO Shih Yun
Date: 17 Jul - 30 Aug 2014

Galerie Steph presents Choreographed Collisions, a solo exhibition by Singapore artist Yeo Shih Yun. The exhibition will feature all new works of abstract paintings with organic shapes and geometric lines composed in ink and silkscreen paint on canvas and linen. They will be on view from July 17 to August 30. The artist will be present for the opening reception on July 17, Thursday, 6 to 9 pm, and will be giving a talk at the gallery on August 2, Saturday, 2 to 3 pm.

In Choreographed Collisions, Shih Yun continues to experiment in spontaneous gestures and random motions through toy robots. An unconventional and unusual art-making tool, Shih Yun’s first use of toy robots was in 2010. While at a recent residency in Japan, she continued to explore it as a tool in creating accidental markings, thereby removing the artist’s signature strokes and idiosyncratic touches. Her works are also mostly composed in shades of black against white canvasses or unprimed linens to highlight better the dynamic motions. Her bold and energetic use of black ink expresses movement and serves to emphasise the mark making as a performance.

Since 2001, Shih Yun has explored the creation of gestural surface marks through non-traditional tools like household brooms, frozen ink cubes, water-guns, spinning tops, rollerblades and watering cans filled with ink then poured from a distance. The use of these playful tools releases her from a limited visual vocabulary to improvise and create adventitious forms and serendipitous arrangements that reflect freedom and honesty. Her intention is to surrender authorial control and liberate drawing from its enslavement to the artist's hand.

-Galerie Steph

Image: © Yeo Shih Yun
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Steph

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