STANLEY SHUM

STANLEY SHUM Kwan-hon
(b. 1989, Hong Kong)

Stanley SHUM’s oil works investigate the mentality of individual and social ideologies of the reality. SHUM explores the psychological portrayals of contemporary society, as well as the nonentity of social power, depicting an imaginary new world of hope with dazzling promises. The artist combines the realistic and metaphorical sceneries by infusing the imaginary scenes, nature landscape and man-made urban landscape on the same compositions. His works exhibit a state of confusion and melancholy, it is also a respond to the current social turbulence and the inevitable human condition of restlessness, depression and hollowness.

Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong with first class honor in 2013. His expressive portraits and imaginary scene represent the psychological portrayals of contemporary people, revealing the emergence of social and personal disorder. SHUM currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

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沈軍翰2013獲頒香港中文大學藝術系一級榮譽學士。專注對個人及社群在現實社會主體下的生活狀態研究，其作品描繪對新世界爛漫風景的構想，指涉在一個社會發展新舊跌宕的演變進程中，有序與失序、連結與對抗、建制與革新、自由意志與群體控制拉扯迴盪，藉以呈現一種似曾相識的現實精神面貌，以及虛無飄渺的社會權力秩序。
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