by Ngai Ning Yu BA (Hons) First Class
Oil on linen
h: 200 w: 150 d: 3 (cms).
Featured in Royal Academy of Arts x Plaster Magazine as ‘The best of London Degree Shows’. I explore the notion of ‘home’, not as a fixed location but as an emotional space of belonging, where memory can be revisited through shadow. 'I Remember' depicts my bygone family home, residing in the transitional period of the blue hour to elicit the promised instability of light, and allowing the shadows and fragmented layers of space to embody a sense of loss. Working from photographs and memories of my former home, my mother’s figure is not presented directly but is painted through obstructed layers of space. I see her only from outside the balcony window, looking in at the kitchen through a translucent curtain while the exterior scene is reflected on the glass. Informed by how one can feel alienated even within the interiors they reside in, the figures in my work becomes a vehicle for a lonely state of mind, existing only as an echo to reflect on my sense of nostalgia and loss.
£9000 (As exhibited.)
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by Ngai Ning Yu BA (Hons) First Class
Oil on cradled wood panel
h: 36 w: 28 d: 2 (cms).
Featured in Royal Academy of Arts x Plaster Magazine as ‘The best of London degree shows’. ‘And it goes’ explores an emotional space of belonging, where memory can be revisited through shadow, and I wanted to capture its sensitivity in physical form. Philosopher Martin Heidegger highlighted memory as an integral part of the interior mind that can be oriented and embedded in the materiality of physical place, and I am fascinated by the mundane carriers of recollection, from the smell of a room to the shadow on a textured surface. While making this work, I was considering the origins of memory, and how a moment becomes a memory instantaneously, the same way light is barely realised before it dissipates. The figures of my partner and I cast silhouettes on the wall which will fade as soon as the light departs. I think about the poetics of the same beam of light returning years later to illuminate a space now abandoned, its original occupants long gone.
£1450 (As exhibited.)
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by Ngai Ning Yu BA (Hons) First Class
Oil on canvas (framed)
h: 30 w: 42 d: 2 (cms).
In my most recent painting, I wanted to investigate the curtain as a middle space, something that conceals and reveals conversations between the interior and exterior world. I was organically informed by the imagery of warm lit homes that I would come across during my route back home, and one particular apartment resonated from my continual exposure to it. Perhaps it was the dramatic shades of orange reminiscent of the walls of my childhood living room, or the way the sheer curtain seemed to reveal a barren scene behind it, a living room with the lamps always turned on but nobody seemed to be home. The painting frame becomes the architectural window frame of a home illuminated in the night.
£1500 (As exhibited.)
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