“My art practice is a bricolage of ancestral memory, history, artefacts, stories, and the repurposing of ideas.”
Dominique Fung takes a fresh look at surrealist painting. Throughout history, Asian women in Western art have been treated as objects. But Dominique does the exact opposite: instead of turning women into objects, she turns objects into women, all with a wink and nudge. Drawing inspiration from museum and auction catalogues, the artist places historical artefacts in her oil on linen paintings. Swimming pools can be the same size as a teapot, vases the same size as a door, and many of the paintings have a warm, honey-hued fuzz in a nod to the colour of traditional Chinese scroll paintings.
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Bio
Dominique Fung (she/her) was born in 1987 in Ottawa, Canada. She is based in Brooklyn, New York City.
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Dominique Fung’s parents worked in a factory producing terra-cotta after leaving Hong-Kong. Now, Fung often paints these ceramics in her work and has reflected saying, “Maybe my relationship with ceramics is coming full circle”.
