YEE LING TANG: ‘TO LOSE THE IDEA OF DIMENSIONS’
Artist made in Hong Kong but living in Holland, Yee Ling Tang faces and compares, with particular attention, issues of perception and dynamics among cultural and social contexts. In the series “To lose the idea of dimensions” this research push her within the reality itself, through manipulations of scale and overlapping of distinct environments. “The images”, she writes, “show that I am simultaneously in multiple locations. I grew up in many worlds and cultures, I cannot choose. I live in multiple worlds”. Hence what we see is not just an exercise in surrealism. For the artist diving into the artistic production becomes a way to interrogate the environment, to investigate its dynamics, to resize point of views. Yee Ling Tang seems almost to mock reality, and willing to demonstrate her ability to move quickly and easily between parallel dimensions. In doing so she reminds us of the fragility inherent in every stereotypical view, but also how through the imagination a place can mean so many places and vice versa. A research that appears as a very timely question in a historical moment in which humans are slipped into a cultural geography increasingly and continuosly mixed.
© Yee Ling Tang