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![Gallery exhibition featuring 3 smaller monotype painting works on paper and a large print on fabric.]()
When You're In The Throes
2020, series of monotypes and print on fabric. Exhibition at Centre[3], produced during the Emerging Artist Residency. Hamilton, Canada
When You’re In The Throes is a print-based exhibition created during Centre[3]’s Emerging Artist Residency. The show takes Japanese graphic Romance novels (Yaoi) as its point of departure. Siu examines the softly sensual and sentimental depictions of young men typical to the genre. In his figures, emphasis is placed on a sense of intimacy in awakening desires, rather than overt sexuality. They appear in the throes of a deep internal drama, as if on the verge of being overwhelmed by their emotional energy. Siu places these romanticized, archetypal youths in dialogue, connecting them to contemporary perceptions around desire and identity.
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![Gallery exhibition featuring 3 small monotype painting works on paper. Behind the leftmost one is also a screen-printed yellow wallpaper.]()
When You're In The Throes (exhibition shot)
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![A painterly monotype of a young man in a red blouse, sitting against a dark leafy background.]()
The Middle Child
Monotype, Paper size: 15" x 22", Image size: 11" x 14", 2020 -
![A brushy and painterly monotype of an abstracted figure of a young man whose eyes are looking down.]()
Reading (Sweetgrass)
Monotype, Paper size: 15" x 22", Image size: 11" x 14", 2020
