Seychellois Artist - Zoe Chong Seng

Beautifully captured small slices of life from the 'Mouvman Lavi' Exhibition - by Zoe Chong Seng.

Zoe Chong Seng

Visual Artist, Teaching at the Seychelles Institute of Art and Design

Born: Seychelles, 1987

Studied: BA (Honours) (Art and Design) from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia

Artist Statement:

Working primarily with oil paints, my interest is in depicting the human figure and exploring the creation of images which attempt to capture both physical appearance and the rather more intangible emotional and psychological spaces. I attempt to create images which encompass the internal as well as the external.

I am currently loosely exploring contemporary life in Seychelles, with one body of work revolving around portraits of the youth, and another which explores everyday scenes of people in transit – on the move, waiting, or pausing to interact with someone. This seems to be much of what occupies my life at present!

I was drawn to create portraits of young adults, often students, where I contemplate matters such as their potential, their search for their identity and the future which lies ahead. I sense uncertainty, impassiveness and detachment, feelings of ennui and tedium, pride and confidence. They are challenging, blasé, or bored.

I collect, make and find things and look at them all together. I enjoy the relationships between things and the connections they form with each other, the way one thing leads to another. I often work in multiples and generate an accumulation of pieces in a variety of media. Repetitively working from a source image allows me to form a relationship with it, to spend time with it and familiarise myself with it. I explore it in different ways, and I value the way the outcomes are always different despite starting out with exactly the same intention and equipment. It depends on the time of day, mood, passing thoughts and surroundings. I enjoy these sensitivities. I see these pieces as familiarisation exercises, like the various interactions which take place during the process of getting to know someone.

Zoe Chong Seng, July 2018

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