Cold Moon with a Fairy Tale
The exhibition Cold Moon with a Fairy Tale reflects the world we live in: increasingly noisy, increasingly virtual. Time and space have many grey areas, and what we perceive as real now has uncounted alternatives.
A projection of a girl’s image dominates the space. Her eyes are filled with silence beyond time. When her face overlaps with that of Lili, time and space can seem fictional.
Lili is a long-standing muse and creative theme in the art of Tim Yip. Lili wanders between the measurable, physical world and that which we imagine. From Asia to Europe, Yip has brought Lili to different parts of the globe. The photograph is the only material evidence of Lili's journey; proof she has been in a place at a certain time. Photographs present so-called reality as captured at the moment of shooting, but also permanently reside in the imagination, granting them a kind of eternal meaning.
Magazines record reality, but also create another, virtual territory. As time goes by, this extra-real space is renewed and replaced in apparently endless change. Faces that had appeared on the covers of magazines become blurred in people's memory. Yip has substituted these anonymous faces with Lili. This is to provoke an indistinct memory of the past, and a questioning of reality.
Like a gentle song, each person's mind has a permanent childhood that can be stirred at any moment and set afloat in the heart. Children do not see clear outlines between fairy tales and memory, life and death, but rather a blur of bleak, cold colour.
