Commissioned by Para Site for Strange Strangers exhibition Courtesy of the artist, Capsule, Shanghai, and Klemm's, Berlin 受 Para Site 委托为展览制作 由艺术家、胶囊(上海)和 Klemm's(柏林)提供 Chan's manipulation of plastic with epoxy clay...
Commissioned by Para Site for Strange Strangers exhibition Courtesy of the artist, Capsule, Shanghai, and Klemm's, Berlin 受 Para Site 委托为展览制作 由艺术家、胶囊(上海)和 Klemm's(柏林)提供
Chan's manipulation of plastic with epoxy clay endows her work with a new haptic sensibility that activates our tactile imagination. In Lithic Current (2023), discarded bumper packagings are carefully sculpted to resemble stone, yet their supple bend and hollows hint at a certain plasticity similar to the weight and volume of the sculpture's central pallet fragment. The indeterminate materiality and physicality draw us closer-could this mysterious ovoid with a mineral "eye" be an ancient animist totem or some futuristic stele? - Joyce Hei-ting Wong