MALVINA KANG HUGHES
Malvina Kang Hughes is an Ibiza-based abstract expressionist artist. Born 1987 in Singapore, she lived and studied in Victoria, British Columbia from age 14. She continued her studies with a liberal arts education at the University of Southern California. From 2009, she created Hom Yoga, contemporary yoga spaces, in Singapore and Sydney.
Her first exhibitions were classical ballet and writing. She wrote poems, short stories, articles, all with the desire to understand the paradox of existence. The performing arts allowed her to access and penetrate the deeper layers into her subconscious and emotional world. The study and practice of yoga grounded her understanding of soul, spirit and consciousness in its infinite impressions.
As an artist, she paints from a space of the unknown. She contemplates the many dimensions through stillness and introspection, to form a coherence of perception. Her gestures are intuitive, rhythmic and uninhibited, giving way to paintings which are formed from a place where no time, memory or impressions exist.
With that, her paintings are a visual and vibrant poetry of playful abstractions, restless naïveté, vivid freedom, absolute truth and an intense and powerful presence of being. Her compositions reflect an aesthetic of depth, expansiveness, and of an urgent transcendence that is arrived through her vulnerability and courage.
" Having grown up in a big city like Buenos Aires, for me, the most precious thing is nature. Its organic shapes and colors contrast with the straight lines and gray tones of the city. This is why my works represent a personal treasure cabinet that consists of a collection of natural elements, combined with a language in which the fantasy and the feminine meet. In my works I represent natural beauty as an antidote to bad thoughts. My main working mediums are watercolor and microfiber and with them I divide my work into two large areas: colored works and black and white works. The lack of color accentuates the represented shapes and separates them from their original meaning, generating a tinge of nostalgia or strangeness. In the works that contain color I represent a more optimistic version that is closer to reality, although always maintaining the dialogue with fantasy. "
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