Biography
Yen Phang’s paintings hover within the penumbra between abstraction and representation. His works investigate self-sustaining sign-systems and their signification – the repetition and ritualisation of visual signals that give rise to the slippage and emergence of meaning.
Phang’s more recent projects and collaborations have embraced performance and installation. His current thematic explorations focus on biosemiotics and the abstraction of nature, heavily influenced by the scientific backgrounds of his parents who were agriculturalists and geneticists.
A continuing thread throughout his work tackles with our relationship with the human body and our anatomy, both as subjective experience and culturally coded symbols. Phang’s works have been exhibited in Singapore and Sydney, and have been collected privately in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, London, and Tokyo. Yen Phang held his first solo show in 2012 at Evil Empire, Singapore, and has since been featured in publications such as Esquire Magazine (Singapore) and The Business Times (Singapore).
