The work: Michael Lye, Construction, 2022. Fluroscent lights and light, 140 x 60 x 70cm. Courtesy: the artist
Currently in his final year at RMIT, Melbourne studying a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Michael Lye works across both digital and traditional mediums to discuss issues of race, philosophy and scientific exploration. Through the use of playfully abstract and minimalistic formations, Lye constructs either blissfully colourful or grotesquely visceral works. He builds upon his own position as a multi-race artist to discuss the stereotypes towards minority groups, while also focussing on generational displacement and its consequential environmental impacts. His recent installation work Construction, 2022 examines the connotations and meaning of the derogatory term “yellow” as a descriptor for Asian peoples.
