Trevor Yeung, Il più vicino e il più lontano, il più chiaro e il più scuro

T293 is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Trevor Yeung, who has recently garnered significant attention with his powerful installation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, representing the Hong Kong Pavilion. The show, entitled “Il più vicino e il più lontano, il più chiaro e il più scuro”, explores the duality and interaction between two distinct series of works: “Chaotic Suns” and “Night Mushroom Colon”.

In “Night Mushroom Colon” Yeung’s use of electrical converters and ambient nightlights conjures an ethereal bioluminescence. This glowing night lamp cluster emerges and flourishes independently through a variation of converters and tempting colours, a metaphor for organic growth divorced from human touch or direction. Their passive existence be-comes a poignant counterpoint to the noisy, interconnected fabric of human experience, suggesting a more fluid and independent alternative to our entangled lives.

Through "Chaotic Suns (Transiting)" - drawing from the ancient Chinese myth of Hou Yi, who shot down nine of the ten suns to restore balance - Yeung extracts a singular, fleeting moment in which three suns simultaneously occupy the sky, teetering between appearance and disappearance. The artist’s use of industrial elements in the form of chandeliers, illuminated by varying intensities of light, embodies this chaos and the inevitable process of transformation. Each chandelier symbolizes the precariousness of existence—where order and disorder are not opposites but forces in constant dialogue: chaos serves as the intrinsic origin of order. The installation urges a reevaluation of how we perceive transition and how every moment is simultaneously an end and a beginning.

Trevor Yeung invites viewers to consider the interplay of light and shadow, chaos and calm, and the nuanced transitions that define our perception of reality.

Born in 1988 in Guangdong Province in China, Trevor Yeung graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010. Currently the artist lives and works in Hong Kong. His practice consistently excavates the inner logics of closed systems and the way in which such systems contain and create emotional and behavioural conditions. In his mixed-media works, carefully staged objects, animals, and plants function as aesthetic pre-texts which delicately and ironically address notions of artificiality and the processes of human relations.

Yeung has been chosen as the featured artist for Hong Kong’s participation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions such as Gasworks (London), Para Site (Hong Kong), and was included in exhibitions at M+ (Hong Kong), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (Paris), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong), Macalline Art Center (Beijing), Jameel Art Centre (Dubai), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Pinchuk Art Centre (Kiev), HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), Skulpturenpark Köln (Kolner), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), UCCA Dune (Qinhuangdao), Taikang Space (Beijing); Asia Culture Center (Gwangju), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney) among many others. He has participated in large-scale international exhibitions such as the Lahore Biennale, the Biennale of Sydney, Singapore Biennale, Kathmandu Triennale, la biennale de Lyon, EVA International Biennale, Dhaka Art Summit, Shanghai Biennale.
His work is collected by Kadist Art Foundation, M+, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, FRAC Alsace, Centre Pompidou, and Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln.