Dec 29, 2018
Backs. Gwen Yip. Acrylic on canvas. 2010-2014.
We all carry things on our backs.
Some shoulder burdens and regrets and
others carry dreams and hopes.
Some scarcely bear them and
others delightedly bring them wherever they go.
What do you carry on your back?
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Gwen Yip is an artist who has lived and worked in Shanghai, Amsterdam and London before settling in Brooklyn. She paints the faces of those she knows and the backs of those she doesn’t. Backs is a series of paintings of strangers in London, Hong Kong and New York. The empty space and blurriness of identity in her paintings depict loneliness and isolation in city life.
Images courtesy of Gwen Yip
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