Photo by Bey Shouqi ( at Sewu Satu Gallery )

Your Tasty Bowl of Fish Soup
Text & Curated by Evelyn Huang

Mix media : Drawing on canson paper, pen, colored pencil, watercolor,
carbon paper, print of fabric, food coloring and bucket.
Variable dimension
2025-2026

There is a persistent belief in human history: that we stand at the center of meaning, control and life itself. This assumption nurtures a system that legitimizes cultivation, extraction, and domination. This belief is not confronted with accusation, but with stillness. This images precise, measured, and almost clinical present fish bodies cut, arranged, and composes with quiet control. Humans are not depicted as heroes, but as traces within larger mechanism that operates continuously and without spectacle.

Through fish, we can considers evolution, survival, and the fragile hierarchies that position humans above other species. They reveal the banality of everyday violence—the normalized acts of catching, cutting, packaging, and consuming that feel necessary, even natural. Rendered in carbon, each drawing carries the quality of a shadow or residue-an imprint shaped by pressure and repetition. Beauty and discomfort coexist. We are left in a space of ambivalence, suspended between attraction and unease.

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