ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
藝術家簡介
Bonnie Chiu (born 2003.) is a Hong Kong-based ceramic artist whose work explores the fluctuating nature of emotions and personal experiences . Since 2023, Chiu has been delving into the topics of life and death through different mediums such as ceramics, sound, photography and printmaking, to express her complex emotions and agony of her bereavement.
HONOURS PROJECT
畢業作品
微聲呼喚
The Pottery Workshop Award 樂天陶社獎
Porcelain, vibration motors, fans
白瓷,震動馬達,風扇
Size Variable
尺寸可變
This ceramic installation is an intimate reflection on my father's passing and my ongoing journey through bereavement. "……for dust you are and to dust you will return." – Genesis 3:19. Porcelain, the permanence of fired clay, speaks to what remains, like one's memories in another’s heart, fragile yet indelible. In this elemental return, the medium carries echoes of the past—its resonant evoking the lingering traces of a loved one no longer physically present.
Both sound and form convey the vagueness of memory. The porcelains resonate like distant recollections, while the messages on them embody how memories blur and fragment. Random triggers suggest the instability of remembrance—how it fluctuates between clarity and obscurity, presence and loss. The work invites contemplation on the ephemeral nature of existence and how we hold onto those we have lost.
This is an ongoing dialogue between silence and resonance; what was and what remains.
此陶瓷裝置作品是我對父親逝世的追憶與沉思。「……你本是塵土,仍要歸於塵土。」——《創世記》3:19。陶瓷,經過烈火淬煉的永恆之土,象徵著那些倖存之物——如同一個人在另一個人心中的記憶,脆弱卻難以磨滅。在這場元素的回歸中,媒介承載著過往的迴響,其共振喚起逝者雖肉身不在卻依舊縈繞的痕跡。
PREVIOUS WORK
過往作品
Transfer printing on porcelain, audio, 2024 Size variable, 2’34”.
Unvermeidlich (2024) follows on from Chiu’s previous series of works on the emotions and thoughts about bereavement. When she looked at the documents a year later, the coldness and undeniable fact was once shown up.
Porcelain, bed sheet, 2024 26 x 12 x 11 cm (work) 77 x 72 x 182 cm (bed)
Presence | Absence (2024) is Chiu's recent work that expresses a sense of yearning and grief for her father, who passed away in November 2023. Despite the sadness, she has been trying to catch that warmth that no longer exists but stays in her heart and memories.
Video, 2024, 4’11”
Chiu delves into the meaning of life and death, through the readings from the bible and The Sheltering Sky. She expresses her grief about her father's death by merging dialogues, readings, sound and images. As well as to arouse audience's attention to rethink about our denumerable lives.