Cuturi Gallery is pleased to present Fo(u)r Humours, a group exhibition curated by Justin Loke featuring works by Anna Du Toit, Chiew Sien Kuan, Immanuel Koh, John Low, Lu Pingyuan, and Marla Bendini.

Revisiting the ancient theory of the four humours as a contemporary framework for understanding mood, atmosphere, and artistic experience, the exhibition explores how artworks generate their own tonal worlds, creating encounters that unfold through feeling as much as through meaning.

Today, the word “humour” is most commonly associated with comedy and wit. Yet its origins lie in an older understanding of the body, where four humours—sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic—were believed to shape temperament and character. While modern medicine has long discarded these classifications, their underlying intuition remains familiar: that every person moves through the world with a particular disposition—a distinctive colouring of experience.

For Loke, this intuition extends beyond people to artworks themselves. Rather than treating mood as a purely psychological state belonging to the viewer, Fo(u)r Humours proposes that artworks possess their own atmospheres: forms of attunement through which they disclose themselves. Warmth and coolness, agitation and stillness, exuberance and restraint become ways of understanding how works of art communicate before language, interpretation, or narrative take hold.

The exhibition shifts attention from subject matter to sensibility. Tone, atmosphere, colour, rhythm, and disposition become central to how a work is encountered. Mood, in this sense, functions as an inner weather—one that shapes experience and allows meaning to emerge before it is fully understood.

Organised around four invisible zones corresponding to the classical temperaments, the exhibition unfolds as a landscape of moods. These spatial groupings are not rigid categories but atmospheres that visitors move through, suggesting that mood itself has a geography.