Trevor Yeung participates in The 24th Biennale of Sydney, titled “Ten Thousand Suns”. Yeung presents three works, Five Chaotic Suns (Transiting) (2023), Night Mushroom Colon (Artspace) (2023), and Cuddle Party (Two groups) (2024) in the exhibition. In Five Chaotic Suns (Transiting), Yeung recalls the ancient Chinese myth of Hou Yi, who shot down 9 of the world’s 10 suns as they collided in the sky in order to restore calm on earth. The moment of interest for Yeung is the transitory period where there are simultaneously 5 suns in the sky – an ambiguous state that could suggest both the appearance and disappearance of multiple suns. Using industrially produced elements to represent the chaos of the convergence, Yeung’s series of chandeliers point to chaos as the natural starting point of order, as well as the ambiguity of each present moment as a possible beginning or an end. Each chandelier features a range of color temperatures – certain light bulbs will appear brighter, while some may not seem to fit. The gradiation of light not only suggests various states of transition, but also the coexistence of differences in every system.
Image: Five Chaotic Suns (Transiting) (2023), courtesy of artist and the Biennale of Sydney.