A Place in Time brings together works by two Hong Kong emerging artists - Manny Yip and Kitty Kong who use the pure language of painting as a response to memory with respect to their childhood and daily observations in the city.
The exhibition explores the fictional aspect of memory embodying not only the artists’ autobiographical information, but the intimate and subliminal quality of places held by memory that gather new meanings and conflate the experiences of the past and present.
As two artists specializing in painting, Manny Yip and Kitty Kong adopt different approaches to reclaiming their places in time. Manny Yip depicts ambiguous figures in subdued tones using acrylic paint, probing into the boundary that exists between forgetting and remembering in the context of her childhood. Turning to landscapes in the city, Kitty Kong’s work rediscovers and transforms physical places into voids of imagination, interpretation and revelation. By selectively isolating objects and memories on paper, she creates a narrative connecting personal memory that unveils the everyday and overlooked.
Yip Man (Manny) is a Hong Kong based artist and art educator. In 2017, Manny graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (co-presented with Hong Kong Art School) majoring in Painting. That same year, she received the Reaching Out Award from the Hong Kong Education Bureau.She has been awarded artist residencies in Sofia, Bulgaria and Chicago, USA. Since 2016, Manny’s artworks were bought by private collectors, gradually receiving recognition. She is currently available for commissions.
Kong Chun Nga (Kitty) is born and based in Hong Kong. She completed her BAFA at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (co-presented with Hong Kong Art School) in 2017 and is currently enrolled in the MA in English (Literary Studies) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2017, she was invited to participate in two artist residencies in Spain and Finland. Being the recipient of the Reaching Out Award from HKSAR Education Bureau in 2017 and the Scholarship from Rome Art Program in 2015, her works are in the collection of Bleak House Books and private collectors.
