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.

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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.

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Durian calligraphy: “King”






More Men (And A Woman) With Plants - An Odyssey of Botanical Assumptions Through The Eyes of 7 Artists
2024 July, George Town, Penang @ China House, curated by Fuan Wong.


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Durian calligraphy: “King”
Durian husk fibre on 60-grit aluminium oxide sanding paper, 150 x 60 cm each, 2023

This work is part of a material experimentation series onthe tropical fruit durian. Durian is crowned the “king offruits” in Southeast Asia for its popularity, unique flavour, and nutritional profile. These battle flag-looking gestural works are the result of blunting the fruit'sthorns by rubbing durian husks against sanding paper to form the Chinese character "王" (King) in various ancient Chinese script types (oracle bone and seal).

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