The Incredible Frolic
2018

Presented at solo exhibition of the same title, held at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore.

The Incredible Frolic brings together a constellation of autobiographical narratives that unfold across unexpected and often overlooked sites in Taipei and Singapore. These stories emerge from moments of encounter, observation, and inhabitation within everyday urban spaces, continuing the artist’s long-term exploration of cruising sites as social, spatial, and affective environments. Rather than treating these locations as fixed or marginal, the work considers how specific communities actively transform public places: imbuing them with layered memories, informal histories, and symbolic meanings that exist parallel to official narratives of the city.

Within these spaces, eroticism operates quietly and obliquely, existing in plain sight yet rarely acknowledged. It manifests through gestures, proximities, glances, and atmospheres, charging forms of masculinity that are constantly regulated and held in restraint. The exhibition attends to this tension between visibility and suppression, where desire is neither fully concealed nor openly declared, but instead circulates through subtle codes and shared understandings.

Cruising is approached here not solely as an act of looking or searching, but as a temporal condition: one that involves nonchalant loitering, waiting, lingering, and hanging around without obvious purpose. These states of suspension resist productivity and legibility, allowing alternative rhythms of time and presence to emerge. In this sense, cruising becomes a method of being in space as much as a mode of encounter, foregrounding ambivalence, anticipation, and the politics of staying.