Alvin Ong Gives His “Body and blood” in Sydney

Body and blood seems like the perfect title to an Alvin Ong exhibition. His second solo show in Australia, this one at Ames Yavuz in Sydney, feels like the artist is fully in bloom with the audience, a conscious examination of home and place, an opening of his soul in all its depth in terms of religion and coming of age narratives and even mundane in-between moments of everyday tasks. It’s like a diary of how life can be just as fascinating, that ritual can be so simple, even in the chores of everyday life. With the backdrop of what the gallery notes is “the rituals of inclusion and exclusion,” the works explore Ong’s life in both London and Singapore, fantastical and…

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