Kin-Ting Li’s (b.1991) paintings traverse fiction and reality. The gestural and seemingly abstract shapes that are visible mimic organic structures; it is unclear whether they represent micro-scale workings internal to the body or astronomical happenings beyond our universe. Li employs a distinctive palette of chilling and otherworldly tones – charcoals, silvers, petrol blues and lime greens – and his works, which hold a distinctively rough surface texture, have been described as ‘protean renderings’.