Siew Guang Hong
 

Soyfed Beef–64400grams includes a trio of life-sized photographs of the artist’s undressed body, suspended from the ceiling on hooks like meat for sale at a butcher’s counter. According to Siew, it makes visible ‘the homonormative capture of the queer body that colonises the homosexual man within palatable, marketable formats, configured nonetheless by the desires and needs of the heterocapitalist system.’

The equivalence between the meat market of the grocery store (alluding to capitalist animal exploitation) and the meat market of queer desirability (embodied in the nude) is a twinning of two sorts of ‘marginalized bodies, dehumanized and objectified.’

Excerpts from curatorial essay by Louis Ho in Of placebos that sing sweet in the mouth and ache in the soul exhibition catalogue