Don't get caught in a huge bear trap of emotions, says newcomer artist

Joshua Kane Gomes sits inside one of his new works called 'Gap Space' (steel, fiberglass resin, stool top and decorative chain, 2019). Photo: The Star/Kamarul Ariffin

There is a special kind of fragility in a mannequin stripped bare, fused with a pillow filled with all the sadness in the world. Or a chair slumped in a corner, defeated and deflated, with its legs like blue tentacles sprawled over the floor.

A nearby mirror reads: “Bet You Will Break Before I Do”, the words stare back at you in hysterical neon. It is the most passive aggressive mirror you will ever meet, but you are numb to its taunts and everything else around you.