Tiffany Chung
Artist
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Tiffany Chung is fascinated by the uncharted narratives surrounding historical events. Using maps as her investigative vehicle, her works document a journey into cultural memory and imagined futures. Combining topographic imagery, traditional handicrafts and sculpture, Chung draws comparisons between social bodies and living organisms. These multi-layered visualisations use cartography as a way of unveiling surreal histories, transgressing the purpose of a map as a purely mechanical instrument.
Chung's earlier works have adopted a unique blend of sculpture, performance, video and photography. Appropriating propaganda and pop-culture imagery, her work deals with phenomenon as diverse as Cosplay through to the tragic atomic bomb blasts to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Recently, Chung has turned her cartographic gaze onto local territories to dislodge mediated representations of Vietnam's traumatic past. During childhood, Chung witnessed the flooding of the Mekong Delta in 1978. This early experience shaped her curiosity in floating communities and the fluidity of narratives that surround these landscapes.