In the lead up to and during Household Gods, the first exhibition resulting from HART Social Studio, a series of conversations the curator and artists live-streamed from HART Haus and HART Hall, will offer behind-the-scenes access and insights.
The works of art created by Tap Chan reflect her consistent in-depth study on material application. Constantly investigating the different facets and characteristics of materiality, medium and media, she explores how these characteristics enrich the contents or expression of her creations, as well as how these qualities help evolve her art making. One may say that the dedicated research on matters, textures and materials has become Chan’s art language. Spectators can learn about the close relation and connection of her works with space and environment, as we slowly discover and observe more of her practices.
Chan tends to develop her concepts and approaches of realising her works gradually. As we read her art with an open mind, we can better understand how it suggests both positivities and negativities in our everyday experience, at the same time learning how these abstract, simple and poetic representations enrich our comprehension of the complexities of the world, of visual cultures and of contemporary art.
About the Artist
Tap Chan born in Hong Kong, currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She received her B.A fine art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2011 and an M.A. in Visual Arts from the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2014. Her works mostly appear in the form of installations, videos and sculptures. She is interested in exploring the idea of liminality that is embedded in daily life, where the boundaries between fiction and reality are often blurred, like the undefined psychic and emotional ruptures experienced during bouts of insomnia. To construct a narrative of the subterranean mind that rumbles beneath the facade of modern existence.
She was funded by Hong Kong Arts Development Council cultural exchange project in 2017 for her solo exhibition "A Soft Note" in Singapore and has participated in Hong Kong Sculpture Biennial 2016, a solo intervention “444”, group show "Underline" in Netherlands and is currently showing in Tai Kwun Contemporary HK.