April 18th to May 12th, 2023.

Exhibition Hours

Tuesday to Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Sound Bath Meditation

with The SoundBody Collective

April 29th, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Collision Gallery

Commerce Court South

30 Wellington St, Unit G114

Toronto, ON M5L 1G4

𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖

Kyle Yip's trans-disciplinary practice integrates eastern and western recovery-based approaches derived from gnosis and neuroscience. It plays with the new fixities of identity politics drawn from the colour-field of pop physics, combining euclidean and sacred geometry with vexillology. Some of these practices include art therapy, dreamwork, as well as meditation, reiki, and esoteric cosmological rituals that unsettle mainstream norms in contemporary art. His work addresses an urgent need in the art industry to merge explorations between personal development and avant-gardist aesthetics.

Yip achieved a significant breakthrough in 2017 when he discovered the unique ability to conceive and examine artworks that emerge during his dreams in vivid detail. He coterminously reverse-engineered these successive images that once appeared immaterial into tactile, obdurate objects.

The bands of simple Gestalt forms incorporate an aspect of both the ancient and modern world, and the overall vexillological format of the works also involves how visual attention is augmented through the practice of serial repetition. These works reveal how the unconscious has been branded by advertising formulas redolent of monotonous imagery of the commodity form. The subversive hybrid of these methods metaphorically maps a similarly disruptive kind of complex new identity.

This exhibition is generously supported by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.