These works are inspired from observation of our natural landscapes by the coastal regions. Aside depicting scenic wonder of nature and its dynamism, hopefully they serve as contemplation on change and time.

During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown cycles, I have taken time to be with nature - cycling, treking and swimming at coastal areas of Pasir Ris and Changi. Landscapes and waters of coastal shores were comforting and inspiring. With the pandemic not ending and stretching for nearly 3 years, observation of land and sea with their changes with time became a source for my creation.

My works were abstractions of land and sea in dynamism documented at different times of day. They were expressed in my main practising medium of wax and dye in Batik Painting. Translucency of dyes, linear contouring of wax and over layering techniques best suited in capturing fluidity of the sea and organic nature of land.

I hope these works depict dynamism and spectacle of nature and remind us of change and time in significance to the pandemic and our transient life.


Land and Sea - Changing Scenes

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Escadrille 9090Q

A highly coterminous creation of a neon sculpture from an ongoing series originally envisioned during recurring REM dreams of  artist Kyle Yip.

He achieved a significant breakthrough in 2017, when he discovered how to consolidate his studies of psychology  with his  art practice within different states of conscious awareness — from different stages of restful awareness and sleeping to dreaming. He possesses the unique ability to perceive then examine artworks which emerge during his dreams in vivid detail.  Images that once appeared immaterial are meticulously reverse-engineered into tactile, obdurate objects.  His research in therapy, rigorous background in classical animation, and avant-garde art practices began to coalesce into new cross-identifactory modes of making art.

This work explores the cosmological and mythological influences within early 1930's classically animated Disney films.  The series, "Close your eyes, make a wish and let your dreams come true." is quoted from the artist's sister's twin sized bed sheet from Disney's Cinderella franchise. The North Star is a ternary star system composed of a primary star offset by two smaller circulating twin stars. The primary star is symbolic of Cinderella's guiding light during a phase of self-doubt and oppression, characterized by the solar eclipse. The manifested dream sculptures represent the "American Dream" itself, and contain their latent meaning. 

Kyle Yip recognizes his work as both the diagnosis of a cultural condition, but also an opportunity for viewers to meditate on t.heir dreams and celebrate childhood nostalgia

Dream Sculpture A1

And it shines – I shine within it

This work is part of the installation “my playbench in the workground.” This work comes from the “axe before entering” TV trope. During the exhibition, the kinetic concrete Maneki-Neko constantly knocks on the door gently while an axe is placed leaning against the door. Through a cartoonish depiction of the usually super violent trespass scene, this work contemplates the differences between the use of tools in our daily life and that in mass media, the gap between the actual and the representational, and the complex relationship between desire and violence. 

“then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff.” 

FRAGMENTA is an initiative to present contemporary art in the form of pop-up exhibitions in the public spaces on the Maltese Islands. As a project space without a physical space, FRAGMENTA’s mission is to offer experiences in form of artistic events, which happen in different locations or settings in and around Malta, lasting a maximum duration of 24 hours. FRAGMENTA has been organizing events and exhibitions since 2013.

Each exhibition is curated by Bettina Hutschek, who also determines setting and location. The exhibitions are born through a collaborative process between FRAGMENTA and the artist.

We consider the elements we are presenting to be “art”, most of the time, but this is not even necessarily the case. In the end, we do not know what “art” really is, or how to define it. We simply want to show something beautiful, something intelligent, or something strong. Or ideally all of these put together.

Curator, Founder, Organizer and Location Scout: Bettina Hutschek
From 2016 to 2018, FRAGMENTA Malta was supported by Valletta 2018 as part of the cultural programme of the European Capital of Culture.

FRAGMENTA Malta is a registered Voluntary Organisation: VO/1171.

FRAGMENTA Malta

With the idea that the materials themselves engage in reflection and pose questions about the situation of the city’s speculation, the artist creates a series of key rings with the rubble of Berlin. These pieces and the placement of one of them on an overhead projector are based on the idea of the Souvenir as the consumed image of the city as a product. The value of the key rings plays an important role as it will always be linked to the price of the square meter of the site, determined by the real estate market.


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