Kiang Malingue is pleased to present “The House in the Trees”, showcasing a suite of eight drawings on paper by New York-based artist Kyung-Me. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Further developing a drawing practice that deals with haunting symmetries, ouroboric infinities, embedded narratives composed of designs, furniture pieces and curios from different cultures and times, Kyung-Me considers the potential of mise-en-abymestructures in relation to the ways in which individuals form their own psychic prisons.
 
Since 2015, Kyung-Me (b. 1991, lives and works in New York, NY) has been creating intricate works on paper that combine and subvert artistic traditions such as handscroll or emakimono, and Western technical drawing by emphasising the labyrinthine and psychological aspects of architectural environments. Pivoting from making drawings of parallel projection to mapping a perspective that produce mirror effects along the centre, Kyung-Me created for the exhibition “Sister” in New York in 2022 a suite of eight lavish drawings set in two distinct institutions: monastery, and geisha lodging home (okiya). The drawings feature female figures that are as solemn and paralysed as the shrouded chambers, flawlessly decorated in order to reveal the uncannily organic that disturbs and collapses.

Opening reception: Thur, 26 October, 6 – 8 PM

Gallery address: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai