Photograph of a detail of Roberto Chabet's Psychopathology of Life, showing plywood boxes whose interiors are lined with mirrors and contain white billiard and steel balls.

Psychopathology of Everyday Life is a two-part installation that was first exhibited in 1997 in one of Chabet's annual simultaneous exhibitions at Finale Art Gallery and West Gallery in SM Megamall.

Chabet wrote, 'The two space-specific installations using familiar, almost nondescript objects such as balls, index boxes, tables, clipboards, and army-surplus camouflage explore the slippages of meanings unleashed when quirks of the unconscious mind (the artist's as well as the viewers') set in unpredictable collision courses the objects and images that inhabit our everyday life.'

''Forgetting, Slips of the Tongue, Bungled Actions, Superstitions, and Errors,' the subtitle of Sigmund Freud's book from which the exhibition derives its title, serves as a virtual agenda for the works in which visual 'Freudian slips' pry the uncanny from the humdrum surfaces of everyday life.'

This photograph shows the reconstructed version of the work from the exhibition, 'To Be Continued,' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore - La Salle College of the Arts from 13 January - 11 February 2011. The work was also included in the same exhibition at Osage Kwun Tong in Hong Kong from 12 August - 21 September 2011 and at the Cultural Center of the Philippines from 19 January - 31 March 2012.

'To Be Continued' is a landmark survey exhibition of Chabet’s plywood works from 1984 to the present. In these works, he utilises his signature material – store-bought plywood boards. It is a material which has 'become not only the surface and support of his paintings and installations, but to a large extent its subject matter and content.'

The exhibition gathers for the first time significant works, including the seminal 1980s trilogy Russian Paintings, House Paintings, and Cargo and Decoy. Highlighting process and the provisional aspect of the material, it is reflective of Chabet’s practice, which gives precedence to the fugitive and contingent nature of art.

The exhibition is part of 'Roberto Chabet: Fifty Years,' a year-long series of exhibitions organised by King Kong Art Projects Unlimited in various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Manila from 2011 - 2012.