Yuen Lai Yi: in the midnight

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Time between 0 o’clock and dawn is ambiguous. Perhaps its existence is beyond the boundary of day and night, and therefore presenting itself as an individual. When the spirit and body have to be devoted during the day, gradually becoming sluggish and dazed at night-time. The only left for midnight, the time you are still awake, is muddy yet precious. Consciously escape from unconscious actions, trying to sort out the meaning of existence through the crack, analyze and record the up-and-down of myself.

Yrellag Gallery is honoured to present “in the m i d n i g h t”, solo exhibition by Yuen Lai Yi showcasing paintings as a self-dialogue.

When we split the time and fill it with different purposes, time seems no longer to be an objective number, but a subjective duration experienced with personal projection. To us, it constructs its meanings, a time with texture of its own. Narrating flowing thought about self, relation, decision and time, it merge into a journey in the midnight, an interval of a day, and a time for thoughts.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

YUEN Lai Yi (b.2000) attained a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2023. She concentrates on painting and drawing. She describes herself as a curious yet ineloquent storyteller who strolls along a vibrant and imaginative path between reality and fantasy. Her paintings contain overlooked scenes and fortuitous objects such as candies in grassland and potted apples next to bus stops. By splintering and rearranging these absurd objects into her own story using playful colours, intuitive textures, lines, shapes, and compositions, she creates a world that she feels comfortable with. Reverie gives her respite.