Introduction
Born in Hong Kong, 1993, Jessie is a multi-disciplinary and text-based artist whose works range from mixed-media installations, performances, drawings, paintings, and videos. Listening to the unheard voice of unwanted materials, she works with inanimate objects or beings, in search of relationships which do not live out in a conventional social pattern. Her work is a game of intimacy, wherein everything is carefree, humorous, child-like, low-brow, easy-to-make, and not meant to last. Falling into the holes of human feelings, her everyday practice sews up the gaps between personal memory with life’s realities. With a montage of misplaced rhythm and improvisation, her installation invites the audience into the encounter of a melancholic displacement and embraces society's uneasiness in latent immanence. Living with what we have lost and compromised, she negotiates the world on a day-to-day basis for self-revelation.
Graduated from Frank Mohr Institute (MFA in Painting) in 2021 and received a BA in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018, Jessie was a lecturer-researcher of the OFFCourse, “the Fragments of the Performing Selves” at Minerva Art Academy. Through looking for performative elements that act like human in non-human entities, objects, and art practices in Asian context, and treating objects as human, she explores with students ways to trenscend materialised and unspoken experience. She is also the co-founder and artistic director of S_truggling Art Space, an independent artist-run structure founded in 2021 and developed from her graduation project Struggling Artist. Together they connect peer and young artists to look at failures, struggles and questions of art-making that forges a critical understanding of the art world’s subconscious that are influenced by the competition inherent in the art system. Her publication included Struggling Artist first issue: “Encountering, Capturing, Chasing of Little Moments I Gonna Lose It” and exhibition booklet “May the Art World Tear Us Apart Til We Meet Again.”
