Into the Psyche of Mojoko’s “Psycho Tropics” | JUICE

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shares similarities with the cross-cultural clash of influences found in his art. On the surface, Lawler’s Caucasian appearance and thick British accent suggest he could’ve been plucked from any bog-standard London pub and plonked into the tropics of Singapore. But when you dig a bit deeper, there’s much more to the man than meets the eye. Born in Iran, raised in Hong Kong, and educated in Europe, before moving to Singapore and founding kult Magazine, Gallery & Studio , Lawler’s atypical background unravels itself slowly as he describes the passions that fuel his works, in the same way that the camouflaged features and messages of his chaotic collages become apparent once you look hard enough. While the artist’s body of work has paid homage to Singapore with humorous verve in the past, his new exhibition, Psycho Tropics , serves as his most focused love letter to the islan...

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