Pamela Leung

For Hong Kong-born multidisciplinary artist Pamela Leung, the idea of home is increasingly painful and the sense of loss acute. Is ‘home’ any longer recognisable when its history of a distinctly Cantonese language and culture is steadily erased? In neon signs, installations and performance works Leung examines how the loss of a unique Hong Kong identity exacerbates the pain of being separated from her own history. Her ongoing project, Agglomerate, is a collaborative work begun with her mother and continued with participants across the globe who send her long strings created from Chinese newspapers printed in the Traditional Chinese characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She crochets these into a woven mat of unreadable text – creating an artifact of an invisible and endangered cultural and linguistic history.

Watch Pamela Leung’s interview with curators Luise Guest and Jennifer Yang