Hoo Fan Chon is a visual arts practitioner based in George Town, Penang. His research-driven projects are often set in local geographies and concern class aspiration, cultural identity, informal histories, and colonial legacy. By reframing everyday life with irony and wry humour, his works observe the oscillations and assimilations between social classes, the official and the informal, the highbrow and the lowbrow.

︎ email ︎ cv


︎ previous ︎home  ︎ next


✺ 2025 ✺ 2024 ✺ 2023 ✺ 2022 ✺ 2021 ✺ 2020 ✺ 2019 ✺ 2018 ✺ older works ✺ photography ✺ video ✺ painting ✺ sculpture ✺ installation ✺ writing ✺ george town ✺ archive ✺ fish ✺ durian ✺ badminton ✺ 
Hoo Fan Chon is a visual arts practitioner based in George Town, Penang. His research-driven projects are often set in local geographies and concern class aspiration, cultural identity, informal histories, and colonial legacy.

︎ email ︎ cv

✺ 2025 ✺ 2024 ✺ 2023 ✺ 2022 ✺ 2021 ✺ 2020 ✺ 2019 ✺ 2018 ✺ older works ✺ photography ✺ video ✺ painting ✺ sculpture ✺ installation ✺ writing ✺ george town ✺ archive ✺ fish ✺ durian ✺ badminton ✺

Durian Without Duri



sewn durian husks installation view

Leaving Traces 
2023 July, Hin Bus Depot (George Town, MY)
Curated by Ivan Gabriel

︎


Durian without duri
A set of 7 80grit aluminium oxide sanding belts, 94 cm x 10 cm each; 
sewn durian husks, 2023

The name Durian is derived from the Malay word ‘duri’ (thorn), and the suffix -an denotes a multitude of thorns. Fascinated by how a durian will look without its defining physical characteristic, I sanded down a 3.75 kg Durian Ganja (D158) with a belt sander machine.

︎ previous ︎ home  ︎ next
© Hoo Fan Chon