S. L. YOSHI archive

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Boy Slow Down (2025)

Screen print on paper

24.4 x 35.4 cm (x 8)

24.4 x 36.1 cm (x 8)

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Untitled Study (2025)

Oil on wood (MDF)

21.3 x 42cm

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Covered N Money (2025)

Oil on wood (MDF)

110 x 137.5 cm

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Untitled Study (2024-2025)

Oil on wood (MDF)

28 x 20.3 cm

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Three Bedrooms In A Good Neighborhood / No Sl33p (2024)

Oil on wood (MDF)

35 x 46.1 cm

Titled after the two songs “Three Bedrooms In A Good Neighborhood” and “No Sl33p”, this piece explores the polarized perspectives on “selling one’s body” in the context of sex work and war.

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I Want It I Need It (2023)

Oil on wood (MDF)

138 x 90 cm

A “wasted” person is depicted lying face-down on a grass field surrounded by beer bottles. This 58mm by 104mm frame, which is the size of an iPhone 6 screen, is repeated 156 times - the amount of “weekend evenings” (Friday to Sunday) in a year. Titled after the Death Grips song “I Want It I Need It”, which satirizes decadent lifestyles characterized by substance abuse, this piece comments on the use of “getting wasted” as a coping mechanism, and how it has been documented and normalized.

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Rage (2023)

Oil on wood (MDF)

46 x 36.5 cm

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Baboon with Salt (2023)

Oil on wood (MDF)

46 x 36.5 cm

A chacma baboon is depicted holding a piece of salt. Based on Dave Chappelle’s salt trap analogy, where a baboon is lured with salt, trapped as it does not want to let go of the salt, and then given as much salt as it wants until it becomes thirsty and leads the person who trapped it to the nearest water source. The piece attempts to bring the idea of exploitation into question, and questions at what point a “mutual exchange” becomes exploitation.

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Pest (2022-2023)

Oil on wood (MDF)

21 x 29.7 cm (x 3)

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XXI (2021)

Paper collage

29.7 x 42 cm