Inside The Dream Of A Durian Seller
Yeo Workshop’s latest project is an intriguing pop-up show in the middle of the Central Business District.
Vitrine at OUE Downtown Gallery will showcase home-grown artists, and the first show is an engaging blend of art and accessibility. The catalyst is Nanyang pioneer Cheong Soo Pieng’s 1981 Durian Seller depicting a street vendor smoking an opium pipe, his wares strewn in front of him, and a trio of happy customers eating the king of fruit.
Vitrine brings works by 12 other Singapore artists together in conversation with the motifs and myths addressed in the painting. Collective Chun U Bi has some quirky takes, dissecting elements of Cheong’s work in pop-art fashion. Bao Jiak turns the handwritten sign in the painting into bright green neon lights, and Durian Man Sleeping is a tufted rug that is kitschily kawaii, its graphic lines recalling woodblock prints.