Chung Cheuk Hung
 
 
 
 
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I am interested in the concept of culture and how a culture can serve as a human manufacturing machine. A culture is a process and it is constantly in a state of transition and transformation. This cultural transformation defines who we are or what we are and who we will become or might become. We exist in a culture of fear, desperation and objectification. We are fear to be judged, we are fear to not be loved or to love, we are fear of death, etc. Because of fear, there is desperation. We are desperate to live, desperate for happiness and hatred, desperate to conquer and desperate to seek. We are obsessed with material things, money, power, greed, brands, cars, fashions, looks, and ourselves, etc. Our culture is in a constant process of “objectifying “ - both to ourselves, our surroundings and the people around us. Objectification is the final process of fear and desperation. A subject being reduced to an object merely stripping itself its value and meaning. The obsession with fear, desperation and objectification are the foundations of my work.
 
My works attempt to express and question the notions of fear, desperation and objectification within our culture. It is an exploration in attempt to define and redefine ourselves both as a subject, as an object, and its fusion & transition between the two. Furthermore, my work aims to investigate the humane and the inhumane of these notions and its consequences within our culture. It is also an attempt to investigate the transitions of a culture as a process , as a machine, and culture as destruction & fragmentation.
 
The work does not attempt to beautify or to establish any esthetic value or artistic principals to the canvas or art surfaces. Instead, the artwork search, investigate and challenge us to question our existence as a subject-object, the meaning of cultural transformation, a culture as a process, and an attempt to question hope in a hopelessness culture.