Suki Chan

Suki Chan is a japanese artist who uses mixed media processes to create her art. She has had her work exhibited internationally, normally presenting it as installations or as videos. Her work is incredibly abstract and contains a lot of symbolism, mostly with times and places.
In her piece 'Sleep walk, Sleep talk' she focuses on the busy London enviroment and uses symbolism to portray the individual escape of repetitive habits and the freedom of expression. The video mostly consists of watching trains and cars speed by creating light-trails in the night, and following the paths of individual people. She created this video using time-lapse photography. Time-lapse photography is a technique used in cinematography which makes the frames-per-second much lower than it would normally be, making the video created appear to be much quicker than it would normally be, and creates a sort of stop-motion effect to the video. I really like this technique as it creates a really surreal and abstract effect.

Also her project 'A Place on Earth' focuses more on the photography side of her work, where she has taken photos of a village in China that is eerily empty due to no-one buying the new historical buildings in the area. I love the eery and lonely feel to these images which make you feel like you are there yourself and all alone, it's as if you can feel the silence.


I have to admit I really don't like Suki Chan's work. I really struggle to understand the concepts behind most of it, and I think it's too abstract for my tastes, although I do really admire her experimental nature and her use of mixed media.