Tap Chan

Tap Chan’s practice spans installation, video, and sculpture. Probing the ambiguous boundaries between fiction and reality, Chan explores the ideas of liminality and duality embedded in daily life and fabricates a physical and ideological space of uncertainty in her works.

Often juxtaposing a pair of similar objects in one setting, Chan’s works evince an active meditation on the multifaceted nature of visual reality, bringing together both macro and micro universes with metaphors, parodies, fantasies, and imagination. The artist is interested in grasping, translating, and articulating the near-unconscious state induced by and experienced within psychic and emotional ruptures. In constructing a psychoterratic narrative, her works also evoke an unease with the collectively nihilistic mentality in contemporary society.

Chan received her BFA in Sculpture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2012 and an MA in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2014, and currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Source: Hong Kong Arts Development Council