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Trevor Yeung

TREVOR YEUNG

Courtyard Of Attachments, Hong Kong In Venice 楊沛鏗：雙附院，香港在威尼斯 M+ 20 April–24 November 2024 Hong Kong
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In Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Attachments, Hong Kong in Venice, Trevor Yeung explores personal experiences and observations of the relationships between humans and aquatic ecosystems. He draws from references that include his father’s seafood restaurant, pet shops, feng shui arrangements, and his childhood pet fish companions. In landscapes of fishless aquariums, Yeung places longing, desire, and power on display. His works contemplate absence and attachment as a way to comment on the systems that structure our lives while alluding to the current climate crisis. The exhibition invites us to consider the emotional disconnect and power dynamics that characterise society today.

This exhibition marks the sixth collaboration between M+ and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for Hong Kong’s presence in Venice. As with previous editions, the Venice presentation of Yeung’s work will be shown in Hong Kong in an adapted exhibition at M+ in 2025.

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About the Artist

Trevor Yeung (b. 1988, Guangdong), who represented Hong Kong in the Venice Biennale, is a contemporary artist who works in installation, sculpture, photography, and carefully orchestrated environments that draw on botany, horticulture, and aquarium systems. He is known for using fish tanks, plants, light, scent, and controlled habitats as analogies for intimacy, desire, and social behaviour, examining how emotional life is shaped by structures of care and control. As Elaine YJ Zheng notes in Ocula Magazine, in his installations “aromatic blends of moss, woodlands, and male body spray steer audiences through the dark,” highlighting his ability to choreograph atmosphere as much as objects.

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Fridays, 10am – 10pm
Closed Mondays
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