Chong Siew Ying
INFINITY
Infinity was the then 42-year-old Chong Siew Ying’s fifth solo exhibition with Valentine Willie, amid countless solo exhibitions within her career more broadly. The exhibition presented a collection of Siew Ying’s mixed media, black-and-white drawings made with charcoal, acrylic, and oil on paper-mounted canvas. Covering various scales, including a number of triptychs, the works in the exhibition saw Siew Ying exploring with the idea of imagined landscapes and the power of landscapes to reflect our inner emotions. Many of the landscapes are anonymous, and some span past the canvas into infinity. Through Siew Ying’s intuitive emotional handling, the natural subjects in her work (birds, trees, mountains) become symbols connecting us to greater spiritual and philosophical viewpoints. The works throughout Infinity trigger memories of places we have been, dreamt of, or simply yearn to experience and therefore represents the sublime power of nature to prompt self-introspection, as well as connect us to grand spiritual and physical forces.










