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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