Soyfed Beef - 640grams

2024
Live performance, soy milk, painted soy milk cartons
40:08

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Excerpts from curatorial text by Louis Ho:

Soyfed Beef – 640 grams is an elaboration of a conceptually similar piece first performed in January 2024, with the current work involving Siew
consuming, or attempting to finish consuming, the equivalent of 16 one-litre cartons of soymilk.
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The work speaks to the fixation on nutritional intake and muscle-building among serious gym- goers, while the artist also points to the analogy between his body and those of the livestock bred by large-scale agribusiness, two varieties of soy-fed beef.

Performed live for Of placebos that sing sweet […] (2024) over at Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore and curated by Louis Ho.

Photo documentation by Valentino Tan.​