• Issue
  • Mar 01, 2024

Trevor Yeung: Watchful Intimacies, Botanical Intricacies

Installation view of TREVOR YEUNG’s Soapy Fuck Tree, 2023, soap, oak bark powder, mosses, selection of essential oils, glitter, fiberglass, metal, 250 × 102 × 113 cm, at "Soft Ground," Gasworks, London, 2023. Courtesy Gasworks.  

Between artists and their work there exists a space where emotions and expressions transpire, like leaves giving off water vapor through the stomata. Yet, for many artists, such space ends when the artworks depart from the art-making process. For the Hong Kong-based artist Trevor Yeung the bonding between the artist and artworks never ends, as long as the plants in many of his works continue to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen through photosynthesis.