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Art NOW: Christine Cheung
Slowing down the image
12 pm, January 13, 2020
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

Canadian artist Christine Cheung will give a lecture performance about the transformation of her work from painting, to installation, to collaborative work and back again. She will discuss how various environments in Asia, Europe and North America have transformed her work and brought to light the paradoxes inherit within her practice. 

Using an intuitive phenomenological approach, her work combines opposing elements such as playful happenstance with work distilled through an interior dialogue. Some works focus on emptiness, and a subtle tactility that can mirror the internal narratives of the viewer. Through the inexplicability of the images and objects, one is provided a space to grapple with questions of attachment and abandonment, fluctuation and constancy, separation and rebirth, where new identities may be formed.

So often we consume an image before it is actually seen. How do we value materiality, the things around us and slow down the viewer? How do we move from a consumptive art production into something worth making and viewing? How do personal memories and collective memories connect?

Biography

Christine Cheung is a Canadian artist living in Berlin.

Her works range from paintings, drawings, installation, found object sculpture, sound recordings, performances and most recently, writing. Combining these, Cheung's work play with emptiness, allowing the viewer a space to imagine and forget/remember.

Among her solo exhibitions, Cheung has had shows at the Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Trondheim, Norway. Her video art has been exhibited at the DokumentArt European Film Festival in Germany. Cheung recently completed a residency at Nida Art Colony, Lithuania, and at No-Mu residency in Kameoka, Japan. She has completed residencies in China, Portugal, Norway, Thailand, Indonesia and Austria, among others and is part of the permanent collection of the Sørlandet Art Museum in Norway.

Born and raised in Calgary, Cheung is a recipient of the Joseph Beuys Scholarship at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada and numerous grants and awards, including those from the Canada Council of the Arts. She has been featured on CBC Radio, The Globe and Mail and Kunst magazine. She has upcoming group shows in Tokyo and Berlin, Germany.

Her work tries to exemplifiy the act of letting go, or something quite like it.