A Table Without Us // Yu Shuk Pui Bobby

🎨 Van Etten Gallery is thrilled to present:
A Table Without Us by Yu Shuk Pui Bobby
🗓️ Opening on June 19!
📅 Exhibition runs from June 19 to July 5, 2026
🕔 Open Saturdays and Sundays, 1 PM - 4 PM (or by appointment)
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Hemorrhoid Loans Series, Chapter II
A Table Without Us situates a Lunar New Year dinner within the challenging themes of bodily debt. This installation investigates how care, silence, shame, money, and unaddressed emotions are navigated through food, seating arrangements, traditional rituals, and cleaning objects.
While a dining table typically symbolizes reunion and abundance, here it morphs into an inflamed body—seemingly whole and exquisite outwardly, yet congested and troubled internally.

The table narrates a story: who is served, who abstains, who pays, who is left out, who consumes, who cleans, and who takes the leftovers home.

This exhibition continues the thought-provoking exploration of Yu Shuk Pui Bobby’s ongoing series Hemorrhoid Loans《痔債》, which uses the metaphor of hemorrhoids to delve into chronic pain, shame, family history, caregiving, labor, and the societal teachings that condition us to silently endure discomfort.

Supported by:

• Forbundet Frie Fotografer
• Kulturdirektoratet visual art
• Fond for Lyd og Bilde
• Norske Billedkunstnere

Researcher: Wang Yi Hong
Technicians: Jamie Donald, Finlay Hall
Special thanks: Abel Robsahm, Jamie Donald

📍 Location: Smedgata 3, 0651 Oslo, Norge
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