Ming Ying

Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint. 
Her recent works mainly reflects a kind of collision between reality and unreality that can happen in the everyday world, such as when listening to music or seeing something familiar that creates a mental image. Such collisions intersect with daily experience. She is interested in the sense of such collision which is produced in a delicate relationship of contradiction and harmony in painting.

In the work, She makes a division into different parts which each has its own visual surface and, when put together, can express the collision between reality and unreality. As part of the process, she adopts exaggerated lines and strokes to depict real and figurative spaces with thick paint as dominant part that also function to communicate a sense of exaggerated reality. Further, she tries to build an abstract pattern with flat paint in the pictures to embody a kind of imagined fictional space to break into the figurative and realistic world. The whole picture is comprised of two halves; one, a realistic expression, the other, an unreal one. 

Before this series, she has been trying to put ‘sense of flow’ into her painting works since 2017. She hopes that，through the painting，she can present a philosophic idea that everything is in absolute motion and stillness is relative. Eastern Buddhism believes that all things in the world have a constant state of change and are interdependent, and for this，western philosophers have the same ideas. This feeling is quite strong in our era. We have to face and to be connected with such a dramatically changing world.

Currently, her exploration is geared to a new stage which focuses on the cognition of fiction and reality in this fast-changing world. In the paintings, she weaves her imaginings - fictional ones - with what she has experienced in her life and demonstrates them through combining different layers and contrasting surfaces. She employs a semi-abstract way of creating an atmosphere which is characterized by realistic and fictional elements. These works have a dream-like quality and are intended to trigger the imagination and ideas of the viewer.  

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Website: mingyingart.com

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