“Journey into the Mind’s Heart” by Eva McGovern

Malaysian artist Chong Siew Ying expresses a deep and emotionally driven sense of beauty through visual poems that instinctively flow from the mind’s heart. Such sentiments naturally embrace qualities that the artist is best known for: sensual painting, elegant figuration and a type of philosophical searching driven by her own personal needs and intuition. Infinity, Siew Ying’s latest body of work, presents one such meditation on the possibilities of imagined landscapes. These sites represent human desires as a type of inner paradise to consider one’s place in the world and the conflicts involved in the process of self-awakening. Her cinematic monochrome works reflect the artist’s many interests: from Chinese ink painting and philosophy, technique and composition, notions of the sublime and beauty, as well as her own multi-centred life, which influences her understanding of place and space.

Full essay can be found in catalogue.