Wheezing: Mark Chung Stars Solo As De Sarthe’s Resident Artist

Description

Wheezing is the closing exhibition that concludes young artist Mark Chung‘s residency at de Sarthe. It showcases a series of interrelated installations, where lighting, imagery and temperature are manipulated to engage the senses and create a cinematic environment.

The gallery is cast in lighting that weakens colour perception, setting up an immersive atmosphere. Artworks include a refracted viewing of Hong Kong’s nightly skyline light show, A Symphony of Lights, as well as casts of convulsing sewage pipes and installations of empty billboards. Experienced in tandem, they speak of a city that is dysfunctional, estranged, stripped of purpose. The title is illustrative of that; problematic systems inhibit every breath we take.

Born in New Zealand and raised in Hong Kong, Mark Chung graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 2014.  His works have been exhibited internationally, including in Iceland, Spain and Taipei.  He was also the recipient of Soundpocket’s Supported Artist grant from 2015-16, and his work is included in the MoMA Library New York collection.