Trevor Yeung
Between Water, 2019
Plastic cups, water, fishing thread
Silent shadow (Gasworks), 2024
Digital print on paper
Silent shadow (green cable), 2024
Digital print on paper
Wind watcher (Shatin), 2024
Digital print on paper
Silver Lures, 2024
Polyester, fishing thread, terracotta beads
Poster, Bus stop project
Trevor Yeung is a visual artist based in Hong Kong. His art excavates the inner logic of human relations. Fascinated by botanic ecology and horticulture, Yeung features carefully staged objects, photographs, animals, and plants in his mixed-media works as aesthetic pretexts to address notions of artificial nature. He often projects emotional and intellectual scenarios onto living substitutes in his work, translating his own social experiences into elaborate fables through which he continues to explore failure and imperfection. Yeung ultimately questions how closed systems contain and create emotional and behavioural conditions.
For phenomenon 5, Yeung presented at the New School a series of photographic works and Between Water (2019), an installation featuring suspended plastic cups half-filled with water. Situated in an orderly grid, the distance between each cup embodies the polite distance during a face-to-face encounter between strangers or acquaintances. By choosing disposable plastic cups over more precious materials such as glass or ceramic, the artist evokes social settings of more egalitarian nature, such as art space openings or casual house parties.
Moreover, working on site, Yeung also created Silver Lures (2024), a series of new works that resemble windsocks and were installed on various electricity poles across the island.