Ken Chan King Long

Chan KingLong (1997-), born in Hong Kong, studied Visual Art at Hong Kong Baptist University Associate programme and now studying in RMIT University Bachelor Degree Fine Art, major in painting. His practice encompasses painting, photography, installation and small sculpture. King Long ‘s art work displays personal understanding and unique insights about different perception of physical and emotional reality. Borrowing inspiration from Semiotics, superimposition and juxtaposition, he also practice about the method of hybridity. With expressive color mood and marks, the style of his paintings could interpreted as the hybridity of abstraction and figurative, that contains multiple directivity and imaginative links between subject matters. Mixed, mutated or distorted “characters” frequently appears in his works. 

“When I look at my own paintings, I often can’t tell whether I should call it abstract or realistic. There is no correct answer to define, interpret what the “character” is. Personally, I don’t think it is a problem that artists not forcing people to agree their views or to listen to a scheduled story. Instead of just telling, I prefer to put forward or to question. As a painter, interacting with audience just like making a piece of collage. Artist is the one who intervene between issues, it could be personal or social, and people. For my works, I put things together, extend and imaginations. I would like to share the fantasy and emotional alternative realism to people, giving them a space to release and to be sensitive to the unseen reality.”