Artist talk: Suki Chan
Suki Chan is a London based artist and filmmaker who uses a range of media including installation, moving images, photography and sound to explore our perception of time and place. Her immersive mesmerizing film works draw the viewer into a cinematic ‘elsewhere’, investigating memory, subjectivity, belief and knowledge systems. Chan’s practice is research based featuring dialogues with specific communities such as commuters, skaters, mediators, ophthalmologists and scientists. Her work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally.
In her talk, she introduced her selected works from 2008 to present. The theme across from her relative of society to different ethnics, from psychological restriction to exploring relationship between human eye and brain, she’s got a wide range of subject she is interested in. Also, she showed visitors the trailer of her works which was more powerful than single moving image because adding the sound effect would bring audience to her world. It’s interesting to know other ratites who are not photography specialism, what are they looking at, what’s their interests and what medium they choose to express their voice, showing their passion on the subject matter, one of the film I like on this talk is she looked at her relative, seeking the memory from her grandmother, she filmed the building which related to her grandmother’s ethnic showing that identity of the society as well as its culture, the architecture was made by wood conveying the idea of Utopian, which it is touching for me a lot because there I have given up to look back the history of my family, I am unable to find anyone who could tell. So, when I hear something similar, I always encourage them keeping anything belongs to your community, that is the most valuable thing in the world ever, showing that who they are and where they come from.
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