Group Exhibition The Color Club, Chicago, USA
april april is pleased to present “The World”, a single artwork by Singapore-based artist Lai Yu Tong for Barely Fair. This is the artist’s first presentation in the United States.
Lai Yu Tong routinely investigates notions of the mundane and adequacy in daily life by way of drawing, sculpture, and photography. The artist’s practice relies on the conditions of observation (i.e., what can be seen or heard from his apartment windows, wherein he also has his studio) and modest, ubiquitous materials, like newspapers, cardboard boxes, and wood. From this perch, symbols of life emerge and are recorded, marking the innocuous as peculiar, sad, hopeful.
The World (2023) comprises ten birchwood chairs, each measuring only 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, installed evenly in a circle. Without sitters, each chair instead holds a graphite drawing on its seat. A feather, a plane, a pair of feet, an insect, and a key, commune with a leaf, a car, an egg, a pair of rings, and a coral. For Yu Tong, “The World” plots a show and tell of the end times, a meeting before the close. In their miniature immediacy the drawings express daydreams and fears, devices toward decisions, escape, and change.
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