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Painting (MA)

Yi To

Yi To (b. 1995, Hong Kong)

Lives and works in London.

Degree Details

School of Arts & Humanities

Painting (MA)

I’m exploring the pre-narrative state of life formation where the body cannot be located in a specifically gendered, racial, or geographical point. Seeing existence as an embryonic domain where it actively takes the shape of reproductive patterns that vascularise, root, and sublate within a collective network, how this matrix relates to transcendence and the sublime is a fascinating and equally enigmatic subject that my practice heavily draws upon.


To dissect existence and human’s role in it is to piece together fragments found through the lens of a history of mark-making, where discolouring, erosion, oxidation, and fading speak volumes of how decay naturally follows formation and the back-to-back relationship between life and death. Pigment and material here serve as cohesive devices that reveal primordiality and the present as a single organism and reinvent contemporaneity.

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Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

140 x 190 cm
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Medium:

Oil on cement

Size:

18 x 25 cm each
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Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

120 x 190 cm
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Medium:

Oil on cement

Size:

47 x 47 cm
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Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

70 x 90 cm
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Incision II
Incision II
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Medium:

Oil on cement

Size:

30x42cm
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Medium:

Oil on canvas

Size:

40 x 40 cm