ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
藝術家簡介
Cheung Sau Ping, Penny, graduated from the Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity and enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts programme at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2022. Cheung’s interests have shifted from two-dimensional mediums: painting and seal engraving, to three-dimensional mediums: sculpture, interactive installation, and performance. Cheung’s early artwork simply expressed emotions and showed avoidance, but has now started to explore deeper spiritual and semiotic dimensions. Cheung often applies language and symbols in the artworks through metaphor and personal interpretation to express the inner self and thought.
Cheung explores psychological pain by engaging with the concept of everlasting suffering in life. Cheung draws on the definition of suffering in Buddhism and the notion of punishment in Greek mythology, creating works based on circular forms or movement in a cycle or loop. Furthermore, sound installations or instruments made of metal are Cheung’s main direction at this moment. Cheung is attracted to the uncomfortable, high-pitched noise of metal friction, which evokes an irresistible sense of insecurity. Thus, metal friction noise and continuous movement in a loop are the main elements and concerns in Cheung’s future works.
HONOURS PROJECT
畢業作品
Sound Installation
聲音裝置
200 x 116 x 65 cm
200 x 116 x 65 釐米
A sound installation played live with a mechanical structure formed by a sharpened steel rod, a steel ball, and a motor, while the lighting provides an overwhelming, immersive audiovisual experience, simulating the frailty of human nature and its struggles with everlasting psychological suffering through metal-on-metal friction and collision.
I thought I would be safe here…
一個運用尖銳鋼枝、鋼球、摩打、機械組件、及燈光營造難以抑制負面情緒的沉浸式視聽體驗的聲音裝置，以金屬之間的重複摩擦及碰撞重塑心理上的永恆苦痛、糾結及人性的脆弱。
我以為在這裡會很安全…
PREVIOUS WORK
過往作品
2025
Interactive installation
168 x 168 x 147 cm
Duration variable
Sisyphus is an interactive installation that simulates the action of rolling a heavy ball in an everlasting cycle. This artwork is intended to show the difficulty and pain of continuing something heavily stressful, which refers to the situation of people working hard in society nowadays. The differences between the weight and value of materials — a 50 mm-thick wooden pillar and a 600mm-diameter steel ball — show the feeling of powerlessness when you are trying to rotate the pillar.
2025
Ceramic
7.5 x 9 x 0.4 cm
Relieved Ouroboros recreates the symbol ‘Ouroboros' which came from ancient Egypt and Greece, which depicts a snake eating its own tail in pain and keeps reborning to create an endless cycle. It represents the substance on the material and spiritual level in a unit that is in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation. At the same time, it shows the eternal pain of self-suffering. It also reminds me that there is a phrase in Chinese, 「自食其果」, that describes the situation of being trapped by one’s own cause. This situation always happens, and somehow it is hard to extricate. Therefore, tail docking is the way that hits the spot of my personal interpretation.
2025
Interactive installation
Size and duration variable
Dharmachakra visualises the process of meditation, providing an experience to the audience to feel the transition of state from chaos to peace. Dharmachakra intends to lead the audience to have a monologue with their inner self, find out what they need, and decide. Meditation is a way for people to determine what they feel and think. The Dharmachakra is a widely used Buddhist symbol of a wheel with eight spokes in Dharmic religions. The eight spokes represent the noble eightfold path toward a being – right livelihood, right action, right speech, right intention, right view, right mindfulness, right concentration, and right effort. Referenced to medieval art, the audience was invited to gain entrance to a cultural narrative through the religious symbol. In Dharmachakra, the wheel of Dharma was used as a tool to present the concept of mindfulness and ethical reflection.
Demonstration Video: https://youtu.be/9KAFCkfegzc