Artist’s Statement
In comparison CHONG Siew Ying’s landscapes have been literally wrenched from the mountain. Their sheer scale pulls the viewer into the painting. The visible traces of brushstrokes move frenetically across the canvas, smudging through horizons into inky black tempestuous storm clouds. There is a visceral sense that the hand that formed these worlds, sullied with the dark stain of the charcoal, also felt the cold shafts of stone, wind and water that inspired them.
Siew Ying’s collection of landscape paintings is not simply trying to replicate reality, nor imitate the past, but it is seeking a truth that exists in essence, rather than concrete form. An ideal reflected in her choice of medium and process, charcoal and acrylic medium. Charcoal known for its immediacy and the ease of which it can be effaced, and acrylic medium, a lacquer like, difficult to control, transparent resin, that binds, seals, or renders translucent. There is a physicality to this process that is tangible to the viewer and a rawness to the materials that transcends the confinements of imagery.
Siew Ying’s work does reflect a continued investigation into her identity. Our memories are often intrinsically linked to a place, buildings, but also our environment, our landscape, our homes. Siew Ying’s latest work is reflective of the global generation of migrants. As emigrants and first, second and third generation descendants of immigrants seek an understanding of their place and identity in the modern world, there remains a sense of belonging to a distant, ancestral, but unfamiliar world. |
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‘Mind-Scape’ Artists Group Exhibition, 3812 Contemporary Art Projects, Hong Kong
‘Fine Art Asia 2012’, 3812 Contemporary Art Projects, HKCEC, Hong Kong
‘ArtHK 2012’, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
‘Fine Art Asia 2010 - Once Contemporary’,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
‘Scope Miami - International Contemporary Art Fair’, Miami, USA
‘ARTSingapore - The Contemporary Asian Art Fair’, Singapore
‘JEJAK’, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
‘00:15 SUPER STAR, in aid of World Wildlife Fund’, Rimbun Dahan Gallery, Kuang, Malaysia
‘CHONG SIEW YING & JOEL COULOIGNER’, Maison des Chanoines, Landunvez, France
‘You Are Here’, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘The Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists Exhibition’, Hong Kong
‘Footsteps’, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘Portraits’, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘URBAN ART2003’, Melbourne connection Asia, Melbourne, Australia
‘Of Shadows And Images’, Konstmuseum, Malmo, Sweden; Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
‘LAUGHTER: Works by Chong Siew Ying and Noor Mahnum Mohd’,
iPreciation Gallery, Singapore
‘Spring Dialogue’, Lorimer Station Studio, Brooklyn, N.Y., USA
‘HEADLIGHTS’, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘Oil and Ink: Chong Siew Ying and Frederique Boumeester’,
Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
‘Rimbun Dahan Residency Exhibition’, Rawang, Selangor
‘FRANCASIA, Encounter of Asian Artists in Paris’, Ariake Frontier Building, Tokyo, Japan
‘Through Our Eyes’, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur
‘9th International Biennial Print Drawing Exhibition’, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
‘4th Triennale Mondiale D’estampes Contemporain’, Chamalieres, France
‘Euro-Estampe 97’, Biennial Prints of Europe, Lorient, France
Gallery K. Trythall, Hvasser, Norway
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‘Infinity’, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
‘IDYLLE (Part II)’, Galerie Deprez-Bellorget, Paris, France
‘Frame of Mind’, Ernst & Young Asian Art Outreach Exhibition, Singapore
‘IDYLLE’, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘Chong Siew Ying’, Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
‘MANY SPLENDOURED THINGS’, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘Mirror’s Edge’, Substation, Singapore
‘Going Away, Coming Home’, Valentine Willie Fine Art,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
‘Freeman Asian Artist Fellowship Exhibition’, Red Mile Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
‘96/97’, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Atelier D.Maraval, Bagnolet, France
Gallery Cafe Panique, Paris, France
Maison TCH’A, Paris, France |
