The impetus for Trevor Yeung’s work often stems from his inner conflicts. “The Sunset of Last Summer” opens with his memory of a past love affair. Continuing on his use of plants and horticulture, aquatic life, photography and installation as metaphors for the relationship between people in his artistic creation, Yeung also constructs a mode of narration oriented around viewing experiences through the hidden and interactive relationship between image, object, space and the viewer. The exhibition presents a kind of human inertia steeped in nostalgia and selective memory. Memories are always beautiful ── in watching the sunrise and sunset, in viewing art, is one seeking some kind of pre-determined memory and imagination, or the experience of viewing?

About Trevor Yeung

Born in 1988 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, Trevor Yeung graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010. Yeung’s practice uses botanic ecology, horticulture, photography and installations as metaphors that reference the emancipation of everyday aspirations towards human relationships. Yeung has participated in exhibitions including “Adrift” at OCAT Shenzhen in China (2016), “CHINA 8 – Paradigms of Art: Installation and Object Art” at Osthaus Museum Hagen in Germany (2015) and Shanghai Biennale 2014 in China. Yeung was one of the 3 shortlisted artists in BMW Art Journey award with his solo exhibition “Garden Cruising: It’s not easy being green” from DISCOVERIES section at Art|Basel Hong Kong 2015. He currently lives and works in Hong Kong.