METAMORPHOSIS
A SOLO EXHIBITION BY JEREMY HIAH
NEW + OLD = Timeless
Creations Works that have endured over time without losing their relevance; this series of artworks has been in progress for over a year, featuring pieces that are both novel yet carry a sense of age. The painting “Coward” portrays a man placing his head amidst the land of hell notes, created in 1994 during my days at art school. After 24 years, I transformed this painting into a performance art piece in the Mekong River in 2008.Many of the pieces showcased encapsulate old ideas with new imagery, echoing the ways history, politics, and systems function. As a Chinese saying goes, “You change the soup, but you don’t change the medicine” (换汤不换药); it’s a metaphor for evolution while maintaining fundamental principles.
Artist Biography
Born in Daejeon, South Korea, Singaporean artist Bo Sung Yom taps into his own transnational experiences to explore the idiosyncratic nature of social, political and cultural identities. Reappropriating cultural symbols and imageries for his miniature sculptures, large-scale installations and free-standing sculptures, his wryly humorous practice picks up on the subtleties underlying the wide range of religions, languages and customs in the world. At its heart, Yom’s works express the innately human and psychological condition of existing within and outside of borders, physical or otherwise.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, UK in 2020. He was awarded the Harper’s BAZAAR Art Prize Singapore in 2016, for his work ‘Gunny Stack’. He was also the youngest artist to be selected for the two iterations of the 4482 [SASAPARI] exhibition in London (2018, 2019). He continues to exhibit both locally and internationally.
TheCoward To
bury one's head
in the money is
to ignore or deny
the existence of
a problem in the
hope it will eventually
go away.
Year 1994
Medium Acrylic paint on Canvas
Size 120cm x 95cm
$8888.00
019 performance Coward. Blame the sky, blame the the earth Never blame yourself
Venue Switerland Basel
To bury one’s head in the ground is to ignore or deny the existence of a problem in the hope it will
eventually go away.
The Coward
To bury one's head
in the ground is to
ignore or deny the
existence of a
problem in the hope
it will eventually go away.
Year 2023
Medium Acrylic paint and Pen Ink on Canvas
Size 120cm x 95cm
$4000
The Pyramid of Coward To bury one's head in the money is to ignore or deny the existence of a problem in the hope it will eventually go away.
Year 2014
Medium Woodcut print, Oil base block ink on chinese paper
Size 95cm x 95cm
$1800
The Pyramid of Coward To bury one's head in the money is to ignore or deny the existence of a problem in the hope it will eventually go away.
Year 2014
Medium Woodcut print, Oil base block ink on chinese paper
Size 95cm x 95cm
$1800
2008 Xian China Guyu live action festival
1 Dies, 1000 Grow exhibition shares the same title as one of the exhibiting work. The work depicts a hand holding a burning candle entwined with a mesh of barb wires ‘growing’ out from a black mound. The burning candle entwined with barb wires reminds us of the logo of Human Rights NGO, Amnesty International (AI) whose work focuses on campaigning against the injustices around the world. This work refers to a series of performance artworks where Hiah was ‘buried’ and the audience confronts a live version of the image seen in this woodcut print.
It would be limiting to see this print as an extension of Hiah’s performance work but rather an artist whose artistic practice is fluid in nature where he is comfortable moving between different mediums. In that way, Hiah’s practice is not specific to a medium but his art is worked through over time through a variety of mediums. Hence, this exhibition, 1 Dies, 1000 Grow is the current reworking of Hiah’s art, life and thoughts. Notable within the show is his current preoccupation and exploration of Taoism through the thoughts of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu.
Title 1 dies and a thousand will grows
Woodcut print with oil base ink on Non acid Archival paper 30cm x 36cm
2023
Price $300
Title 1 dies and a thousand will grows
Medium Acrylic and pen ink on canvas
Size 50.5cm x 70cm
2023
Price 3800
2022 Relics of the performance one die and a thousand grows
Material sleeping bag, candle, bard wired, and video of all the performance.
$3500
Man eat Man South Korea Seoul 2010 performance inspire from Francisco Goya How in our society people making use of people metaphor like eating people
MAN EAT MA
This is a still life painting of a plate of food and consists of many performance art about food LeeWen strange fruit from Billy Holidays Tang Dawu Tiger Penistone and fruit from food South East Asia
Medium Acrylic paint with pen ink Year 2023
Size
Price $3000
Title 1 dies and a thousand will You help me, I help you. You trust me I trust you. I step on you,you step on me, I drag you, you drag me, you betrayal me I betrayal you, I kill you, you kill me...etc
Year,2023)
Acrylic paint and pen ink on canvas Size
Price $4000
The White Angels Crocodile
The white angels crocodile was inspired by the oral story in Kallang River where I used to live nearby and always play in the river when I was young. The white crocodile was a myth that protects Kallang river
Year 2023
Laser cut print with oil base ink on Non acid Archival paper
Edition 99. Price $450
Date: 2023 Size 30cm X 45cm
Medium: Woodcut printing Ink on Fabriano Acid free paper 220g
According to the Chinese philosophical classic Zhuangzi, the great Daoist thinker
ofthatnamefell asleeponedayanddreamedthathewasabutterfly.Whenhe woke up, he did not know whether he really was a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether he was a butterfly now dreaming he was a man. The story is intended as more than a charming episode in the life of a sage: it is meant to make a philosophical point about what we take to be real.
Pprice $480
Title Running Away From The Lighting Storm
Medium charcoal, charcoal power, graphite Size 250cm x 162cm Date 2010
Lucky Insect
This series of insect is inspired from the centipede performance in 2008 Thailand and the idea came from Your MOTHER gallery logo which is a cooking wok. As the Chinese saying goes carry a black wok (背黑鍋) to take blame for someone else’s
The wok and other cutlery have metaphor into centipede and other insect and most of this insect are either bring good luck , wealth or ward off bad omen and evil.
The centipede’s symbolism of adaptability and resilience has captured the fascination of those seeking to overcome life’s challenges.
The dragonflies are also known as the “flying dragons”. The Chinese always regard the dragon as a special auspicious symbol. Dragonflies are good luck symbols that bring good news and blessing to the household members
Spiders were called “ximu” (meaning “happy insects”) in ancient China. Even in today’s folk culture, spiders are believed to bring happiness in the morning and wealth in the evening. In addition, it is a custom to feature spiders as symbols for luck in auspicious paintings.
beetle is a symbol of good luck and is often associated with growth, fertility, and abundance. Having one land on you is generally interpreted as a good sign.
Title Dreaming of becoming the butterfly
Woodblock printing drawings on graphite and coloured pencil
on Chinese paper
Size 230 x120cm
Price $6000
Size 4m X 60cm X 30cm Medium Cook Wok, Sickle Knife, Sink Holder, Metal Pipe With Performance Photos And Video Documentation
Year 2022
Price $4000
DRAGONFLY
Size 4m X 60cm X 30cm Medium Cook Wok, Sickle Knife, Sink Holder, Metal Pipe With Performance Photos And Video Documentation Year 2022
Price $2000
BEETLE
Size 60cm X 60cm X 30cm
Medium Cook Cutlery, Stainless Steel frying pan , cupcakes cup, cook wok, fork and spoon With laser cut patterns
Year 2023
Price 1500
BEETLE
Size 60cm X 60cm X 30cm
Medium Cook Cutlery, Stainless Steel frying pan , cupcakes cup, cook wok, fork and spoon With laser cut patterns
Year 2023
Price 1500
Spider
Size 100cm X 1200cm X 30cm Medium Cook Cutlery, Stainless Steel bowls , cupcakes cup, noodles strangler, fork and spoon With laser cut patterns metal studs
Year 2023
Price 1800
Spider
Size 100cm X 1200cm X 30cm Medium Cook Cutlery, Stainless Steel bowls , cupcakes cup, noodles strangler, fork and spoon With laser cut patterns metal studs
Year 2023
Price 1800
