Pockets of Want and Need
South Parade•Nov 21, 2024 — Jan 11, 2025
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South Parade is pleased to present Pockets of Want and Need, Hong Kong born, London-based artist Kin Ting Li’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Kin Ting Li’s paintings traverse fiction and reality. Li floods space with a distinctive palette of chilling and otherworldly tones – charcoals, glowing silvers and pale pinks, petrol blues, rusted reds and burgundy, to greenish ochre swimming on the surface, as though alginate matter from planetary pools. Across his evolving practice, the gestural and more abstract shapes convey futuristic organic and figurative structures; micro-scale workings internal to the human body, intricate mycelial networks, or astronomical happenings beyond our universe. Moving from the vantage point of a being’s entirety to the cellular focus of one isolated stem.
Science fiction in his practice acts as a foundation for reasoning, its nature enabling different logics to coexist and challenge one another. Each of Li’s paintings —...More
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Pockets of Want and Need
South Parade•Nov 21, 2024 — Jan 11, 2025
Press release
South Parade is pleased to present Pockets of Want and Need, Hong Kong born, London-based artist Kin Ting Li’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Kin Ting Li’s paintings traverse fiction and reality. Li floods space with a distinctive palette of chilling and otherworldly tones – charcoals, glowing silvers and pale pinks, petrol blues, rusted reds and burgundy, to greenish ochre swimming on the surface, as though alginate matter from planetary pools. Across his evolving practice, the gestural and more abstract shapes convey futuristic organic and figurative structures; micro-scale workings internal to the human body, intricate mycelial networks, or astronomical happenings beyond our universe. Moving from the vantage point of a being’s entirety to the cellular focus of one isolated stem.
Science fiction in his practice acts as a foundation for reasoning, its nature enabling different logics to coexist and challenge one another. Each of Li’s paintings —...More