Malaysian visual artist Chong Yi Lin is undertaking a 3-month residency at Rimbun Dahan in mid-2021.
Words from the Artist
Born in Malaysia in 1992, I graduated from Dasein Academy of Arts with diploma in Fine Arts in 2013. I obtained my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Taipei National University of Arts, Taiwan, in 2019.
Through my work, I discuss life, love and loss in all its simplicity. My art is a form of restoration of my feelings towards objects. People will leave but objects won’t. I employ conventional methods and textile mediums to explore the politics of sentiment through a fusion of nostalgia, symbolism, and little rituals in our everyday lives. Threads and lines are vulnerable and soft. It is an important part of our lives. I believe that the thread can hold things together, through needlework; it goes back and forth to embed the emotions into the objects.
Nature, it arises, changes and disappears. Despite the fact that impermanence is inevitable but our emotions can’t be explained, it is lifetime, but evanescent. Currently, I’m working on a plant drawing project by blending my observation and imagination of the plants in Rimbun Dahan. Besides that, I have the idea of creating “something” using found natural objects that I collect while having a walk. I’m looking for an epiphany.
Website: chongyilin.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chongyilin_/
