The tension between the history of artifice and the life of materials lies at the dead center of Yason Banal’s exploration of things. These are inflected things, informed by either finical facture or irresistible weathering. However they are formed, these things are subjected to various degrees of expenditure: the force they keep is expended in one way or another, slowly but surely, and irresistibly so. That said, such an expenditure elaborates on the substance of the things, or make them so elaborate, to the point that the latter are exceeded by this surplus, so thoroughly transformed that they disappear – worked on, layered, and inevitably replaced by the prostheses of the supplement. This process may well ensure a third moment, one that follows the sequence of finding the thing, morphing it, and then intuiting its changeling potential...

-The Drawing Room Singapore

Image: © Yason Banal
Courtesy of the artist and The Drawing Room Singapore