Geoffrey Cheung, Another Channel, 40x40”
GALLERY 881
881 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6A 3Y1
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EXPRESSIONS of HOME
Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung
Opening: Saturday, April 22, 2023 1 - 5p
Exhibition: April 15 - May 15, 2023
Artist Talk: Sunday, April 23, 2023 1 - 2p
Artist Bio
Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung is a visual artist interested in tensions of identity and cultural inheritance, as informed by his own lived experiences growing up as a queer first-generation Canadian of Chinese descent. His current works explore his own connections to memory, from its compaction against familial narrative legacies, to its dilation through ritual and ceremony. In a previous life, Cheung practiced Medical Animation and Illustration after receiving a Master of Science in Biomedical Communications from the University of Toronto. He is now living in Vancouver in pursuit of a Master of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University.
Artist Statement
The impacts of migration are multigenerational. It affects those we leave, those we bring, and those born long after resettlement. Through the action of displacement and in the subsequent retellings of the journey, families and communities begin to blur the lines between individual and collective experience, mixing together their memories of joy, challenge, and trauma. I’ve come to sit with the imperfection of my competing memories—nonlinear, atemporal thoughts that meander and meditate along the erratic threads of experience that connect me and my ancestors to the places we’ve inhabited.
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@geoffrey.l.cheungThe Geoffrey Cheung Artist Talk is a 2023 Capture Photography Festival Event.