Chingsum Jessye Luk

The work of Chingsum Jessye Luk (Hong Kong, 1982; lives and works in Zurich) addresses the limits of art and its relationship to the everyday. It is a meditation on the evolution of time, memory, perception, and language. The artist collects small, simple objects from everyday life, and her interest lies in monotonous and repetitive gestures. Using found objects, her work reflects her obsessive need to collect the everyday, measuring, counting, accumulating, cataloging, inventorying, and modifying it in a methodical, sometimes pseudoscientific manner. Her work is a study of the cyclical and infinite nature of time, an exercise in discipline, a eulogy to the trivial, a tribute to boredom.
In 2019, Chingsum Jessye Luk received the Zurich Artistic Scholarship and is currently enjoying a six-month residency in Paris.