Gabrielle Sculpture

Ophelia S. Chan (b. 1985) is an artist currently based in Beijing. Her earlier works consisted of interviews, home videos and photographs, exploring the idea of fiction in everyday life - romanticised storytelling, the performance of self, and the interpretation of truth. While she continues to explore ideas related to social participation and human interaction in her recent works, she focuses more on the issues concerning: the physicality of video works - her installation works present time-based materials in a way that requires the active participation of the spectator, as opposed to the passive consumption of moving image and sound that we are used to; and sexuality - through fetishising and monumentalising certain objects and iconic images that represent the repossession of power in an oppressed body.