Artists: Cristiano Di Martino and Oscar Chan Yik Long
Exhibition title: In the Darkness of Bones
Curated by: Benjamin Orlow
Venue: St. Chads, London, UK
Date: June 30 – July 27, 2024
Photography: ©Studio Adamson / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and St. Chads, London
Nose. Older brother turned enemy. Fire. Trouble breathing. Clogged.
Protruding.
Gall bladder. Weak, cowardly, oh yes! I am timid and afraid. A stone.
I love you but lack courage.
Missed opportunities, publicized. I am shy.
Small intestine. Small but long. Very long. Chaotic.
But also orderly, a path. But a path that is difficult to navigate, no end
in sight. Knotted.
None of us perceive the complexities underpinning friendship, nor do
we seek to.
Congested. Lack of imagination. Utterly knotted.
Pancreas. Defense. Wall between you and me.
Emerging from mud unsullied, the magician performs tricks.
Excerpts from My Body is a Reincarnated Population
by Oscar CHAN Yik Long
