YveYANG Gallery is pleased to present morals as materials, Tim Enthoven’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Utilizing morality as a visual framework, Enthoven challenges traditional perspectives by suggesting that the moral is the primary filter through which we interpret visual culture. In morals as materials, he proposes that morality is not simply a concept, but an actual material that his work is made from.

The exhibition features 33 drawings, watercolors, paintings, and books, all of which frame morality through a personal lens. For example, Enthoven suggests that a significant number of these works were born from feelings of “resentment,” thereby questioning unfiltered emotions, confession, and purity as artistic motives. The importance of personal ethics is interwoven with the depiction of family structures, as seen in works portraying his own parents as well as in allusions to a 17th-century Dutch didactic folk print of a dysfunctional family. Additionally, delicate watercolors from Enthoven’s personal sketchbooks map the artist’s struggles with allergies, suggesting generational and somato-psychic causes of character flaws. As such, morals as materials functions at the intersection of the intimately personal and the public realm.

The opening will be followed by a book launch of Enthoven’s new artist’s book: morals as materials, 85 moral shortcomings (in the work of Tim Enthoven). This publication will serve as an interpretive guide for the exhibition, highlighting a total of 85 moral flaws across 26 full-color reproductions of Enthoven’s works.