S T A T E M E N T
My works are a culmination and accumulation into site specific history to depict socio-cultural entropic narratives. They explore the correlation between architecture and sculptural landscapes of derelict and disused spaces. I seek sites where the intersection between function and intention have fallen into decline and disrepair, where untold histories recount themselves, in all their brevity, satire, beauty, and collapse.
I work within the reimagined human landscape, looking back to see within: the immense intimacy of the world we shape to suit our needs and what happens when their obsolescence renders them irrelevant.
I work within the reimagined human landscape, looking back to see within: the immense intimacy of the world we shape to suit our needs and what happens when their obsolescence renders them irrelevant.
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"My work is narrative based, inspired by lost and minor histories of forgotten sites. These places offer a form of reverence, loss and a haunting that draw us in as quickly as they reject our presence. Their void offers us an essential space for reflection.
The process itself is site-specific and print based. Like the narrative, it begins with the encounter: the discovery of the work and its documentation. Photography, in its immediacy, captures the discovery of the site. Traditional printmaking processes transform the image, which is printed on wood, bronze, and aluminium. Colour, handmade marks interrupt the image, applied in layers as if perspectives. Finally, the image is physically engraved, mono-printed, and obscured again. The physical relief of the work reminds us of the site itself. Be it a cave network in the plateau region of South Africa, a mysterious train wreck in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, or an impossible theatre in Edinburgh, I seek to learn how we mark the world and how it in turn marks us. In this scene, the print and plate become synonymous, simultaneously symbiotic and parasitic; a plate that cannot create the image it is part of, and an image defined by it." |
PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Kristina Chan graduated with Distinction in MA Print from the Royal College of Art London, trained in analogue and digital photography, lithography, etching, screen print, and digital media manipulation. Her work has been widely exhibited including Musée du Louvre, Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp, Mall Galleries London, Royal Scottish Academy, Anise Gallery London, Lyon and Turnbull Auctioneers, Project 88 Mumbai, and Idio Gallery, New York, to name a few.
She has participated in numerous art and publishing fairs including Artrooms London (Jan 2018), NEU NOW Amsterdam Online (Sept 2017), 4th Edition Hidden Door Arts Festival Edinburgh (May-June 2017), 1st Edition KoMASK Masters Printmaking Salon Antwerp (April 2017), Offprint TATE, TATE Modern (May 2015/2016), Small Press Projects, UCL Slade, London (February 2016), Artists’ As Independent Publishers Symposium touring the Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Germany; Mindepartementet Museum of Art and Photography, Stockholm, Sweden; and Rom8 Gallery in Bergen, Norway; The Dyson Gallery London, UK; University of Applied Arts Archives Vienna, Austria; throughout 2016.
Kristina was the 2017 recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, winner of the Anthony Dawson RE Young Printmaker Award and RSA Guthrie Award for Outstanding Artist under 35 and a 2017 Wyng Media Award (WMA) Commission Finalist. Kristina received the Villiers David Travel Grant and award 2015, Canadian General Governor’s Award for Excellence 2010 and the Government of Canada’s Millennium Award and Bursary 2009.
She has participated in numerous art and publishing fairs including Artrooms London (Jan 2018), NEU NOW Amsterdam Online (Sept 2017), 4th Edition Hidden Door Arts Festival Edinburgh (May-June 2017), 1st Edition KoMASK Masters Printmaking Salon Antwerp (April 2017), Offprint TATE, TATE Modern (May 2015/2016), Small Press Projects, UCL Slade, London (February 2016), Artists’ As Independent Publishers Symposium touring the Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Germany; Mindepartementet Museum of Art and Photography, Stockholm, Sweden; and Rom8 Gallery in Bergen, Norway; The Dyson Gallery London, UK; University of Applied Arts Archives Vienna, Austria; throughout 2016.
Kristina was the 2017 recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, winner of the Anthony Dawson RE Young Printmaker Award and RSA Guthrie Award for Outstanding Artist under 35 and a 2017 Wyng Media Award (WMA) Commission Finalist. Kristina received the Villiers David Travel Grant and award 2015, Canadian General Governor’s Award for Excellence 2010 and the Government of Canada’s Millennium Award and Bursary 2009.
