S I R I U S C H A N
B I O G R A P H Y
SIRIUS CHAN lives and works in Hong Kong. She received her master degree of painting from University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts in 2018, and a BEd in Visual Arts Education from Hong Kong Institute of Education in 2013. Her works always explore the boundary between reality, memories and imagination through the painting of daily life scenery.
E D U C A T I O N
MA in Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, 2018
Instagram : uncertaintimestudio
A R T W O R K S
Creature in Hong Kong Park , 2019
A pond of sad cat,2019
I'll remember someday
Slumber is a Journey to the Eternal Return, 2018
Refuge Island, 2019
plant hybrids, 2019
Artist Statement
“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are.” (John Berger, 1972)
I am fascinated by the evocative quality of daily scenery; how things trigger memories and emotions, revealing our deeper innermost shadow self and interfering perceptions. Through collecting ordinary scenery from every day life and recreating these images with personal narrative, I explore the boundary between reality, memories and imagination. What is on the canvas are the remnants and the distilled forms of the past and memories, creating the sense of ambiguity between reality and imagination, absence and presence.
Though the past is lost and is not possible to authentically portrayed, the memories evolve with and through people. There will always be a way to trace back the origins of the subjects, and resonate with the present at the same time. I aim to capture the uncanny an haunted moment and the sense of loneliness that cause the viewers to relate on their own experiences, to interpret and escape from the present fixed time and space.