Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) Singapore is pleased to present Once Broken, Considered Soul, a solo exhibition by Malaysian artist Yeoh Choo Kuan, running from 27 September to 18 October 2025 at our Singapore gallery.
Emerging from a playful yet risky experiment, Once Broken, Considered Soul traces Yeoh’s first foray into working with clay and glaze. Initially conceived as an attempt to clay-cast entire canvases—including the back—into porcelain-glazed “paintings,” the process quickly revealed its challenges. Size limitations, casting issues, and the high risk of breakage during firing soon left Yeoh’s studio filled with fractured remnants of these ambitious works.
Rather than discarding the failures, Yeoh began re-engaging with the broken pieces through further experimentation with overlapping glazes and firing colour tests. In these fragments, he discovered textures and tones that evoked buried emotions and long-held despair. What began as frustration transformed into revelation—each broken shard became imbued with a deeper meaning, carrying both vulnerability and resilience.
In this body of work, the artist reimagines each fragment as a “new canvas,” layering glaze and fire to create luminous surfaces that hold traces of hopefulness. The cycle of breaking and remaking echoes Yeoh’s broader practice, where destruction and renewal intertwine, and where the imperfect becomes a site of contemplation.
Through Once Broken, Considered Soul, Yeoh Choo Kuan presents works that meditate on fragility, endurance, and the quiet peace found in transformation—each shard settling with a considered soul.
YEOH CHOO KUAN (b.1988, Malaysia) lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
His practice articulates the tension between a spiritual élan and the magnetism of desire, violence, and the flesh. The natural landscape and the overload of information are extremes of a spectrum he embraces and represents in all its contradictions. With abstract painting as a strong foundation, he has, in recent years, transcended into the conceptual realm of installation. His explorations of different artistic domains meet a sheer enjoyment of textures, mark making, and the disintegration of the pictorial matter.
The biographical, psychological, and emotional element is always his point of departure, leading then into visual reflections on our shared socio-political realm.
Solo exhibitions include: Today’s Special (2020), Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore; Streaming Mountain (2019), Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore; Lights In (2018), Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok; Live Leak (2017), Richard Koh Fine Art Malaysia; Private Sentiment (2012), House of Matahati, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Yeoh Choo Kuan – Once Broken, Considered Soul
27 September - 18 October 2025
Richard Koh Fine Art,
Blk 47 Malan Road, #01-26 Gillman Barracks,
Singapore 109444
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