Meet Ben, the 'mushroom' to melt your hearts at toy artist's debut show


An artwork from oodplex titled 'Crying For Help', which captures the artist's pandemic state of mind. It is part of his 'Bleak' exbition at Zhan Art Space in Petaling Jaya. Photo: Zhan Art Space

EMERGING artist and toy designer Lee Ren Chang, better known as oodplex, knows art gallery visitors will go home smiling and hopeful despite the world of loneliness and isolation unleashed in his debut exhibition Bleak.

Oodplex, 27, has also chosen the unlikeliest character to be the star of his show – a mushroom called Ben. A few versions of Ben stand out proudly at the Bleak exhibition, now showing at Zhan Art Space in Petaling Jaya.

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