Yawning at the Fray

Yawning at the Fray is an exhibition by Ruby Chang-Jet White and Steven Junil Park that contends with migration, lineage, grief and healing. Drawing on Chinese postpartum customs and her experience of becoming a mum, White's sculptural installation and meal service engages with motherhood, ancestry, and the implications of creation. Through silk hangings dyed with locally-grown organic indigo, reworked heirloom silver, and objects that transmute Korean folk traditions, Park's work offers craft and community as modes of reconciliation with family and heritage. The exhibition oscillates between materiality and intuition, passing between physical and spiritual states, and acknowledges how eating, making and caring provoke this transition. White's 回口 (the reply) is a sculptural rug informed by postpartum experience, Chinese-Malaysian ancestry, and motherhood, inviting tactile engagement. Park's works include Gazing at two horizons, a two-headed elm duck carved from his garden referencing Korean folk traditions, and Sing me the songs you used to sing, a silver bell cast from heirloom utensils passed down through generations. A house built from inherited bricks uses silk organza window hangings dyed with indigo. The exhibition includes Other tongue 餓 ghost kitchen, a takeaway food service offering nourishing meals honouring birthing and menstruating bodies, with preorders collected on opening day.