Artist Yi To is featured on the debut issue of MING’S BRO
12 November 2024
For MING’S BRO debut issue, editor John Hui speaks with artist Yi To about her observation and inspiration in everyday life that inform her creative process, and how her artistic practice intuitively delves into the themes of perception, reality, and the intersection between technology and human experience, particularly the existential cycles of life and death—emphasising the relationships between form, structure, and the viewer's experience.
Recently shown in Karmic Fissures, Yi’s paintings are characterised by earthy tones and layered textures, highlighted with organic elements and geometric forms that evoke a sense of depth and dimensionality. In this unique approach, she renders a mental interface of a collective user interface we existed in, where minute building blocks converge and disperse, creating entities that ripple and crosstalk across various points. In such controlled hallucination, she envisions the self as an ever-reproducing embryonic domain and the body as a reservoir of information that intermittently appears, which eventually disappears into the void.
Writer: John Hui
To read the full interview, check out Vol. 01 of MING’S BRO, published on 12 November 2024.
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