A Tenuous Sound

Memory and remembrance are key themes in Yasmin Sison Ching’s body of work. Working from photographs and found images, the artist imbues her paintings with a sense of disquiet and foreboding through the intentional obfuscation of figures, covering them in solid blobs of color or gestural strokes of paint. The erasure alters the meaning of the image, decontextualising it from the source image, to embody perhaps the act of forgetting or the fallibility of memory.  As a contemporary art strategy, obfuscation heightens the tension between the visible and the invisible, where an act of destruction allows for the possibility of reimagination and transcendence.