Hoo Fan Chon is a Malaysian visual art practitioner based in George Town, Penang. By reframing everyday life with irony and wry humour, his works observe the oscillations and toggles between social classes, the official and the informal, the highbrow and the lowbrow.

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Hoo Fan Chon (b. 1982) is a Malaysian visual art practitioner based in George Town, Penang. By reframing everyday life with irony and wry humour, his works observe oscillations and assimilations between social classes, the official and the informal, the highbrow and the lowbrow.

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From Yellow To Red





Person(a)
2015 Nov, Black Box, Map Publika (Kuala Lumpur, MY)

Curated by Sharmin Parameswaran & Vignes Balasingam

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From Yellow To Red
Set of 8 digital C‐type prints, 16.5 x 22 inches each, 2008
This series of photographs was conceived during my studies in the United Kingdom, where consuming alcoholic beverages was a common and expected way to socialise. However, like many others of East Asian descent, I developed the so-called Asian flush after alcohol consumption, which led me to feel that I could never truly enjoy this social activity because of this biological reaction. I decided to document the gradual change of my body colour after consuming alcohol, applying a methodology akin to dermatological studies of skin allergies.


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