Artist: Yen Phang

Title: Apprehension

Medium: Offset lithograph

Edition size 50

Year 2016

Size 42 x 29.7 cm

Additional notes: UNFRAMED



Born in 1979, Singapore, Yen Phang currently lives and works in both Montreal and Singapore. Yen's life changed drastically after being hospitalized and diagnosed with depression. It was during this period, that Yen's focus turned to art. His drawings and sketches began to be his only form of communication with the outside world.



A continuing thread in Yen's artwork are his investigations into the anxieties of everyday life, be it about how we communicate with each other, our relationships with nature in urban society or our understandings of perception.



His current series of artwork delves into the mind and expresses his inner most feelings. Yen's work can be perceived at times as dark and foreboding and at other times peaceful, serene and periodically even inspirational.



Apprehension is a common feeling experienced by most people at some point, but for an unfortunate few, it's a feeling that can pervade and control your life.

Here, in this study, Yen Phang looks at the gradual build-up of this feeling and how this "bottling up" might appear to seem. This maelstrom of emotions can mingle and co-exist in the everyday psyche.