Chan Ting (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. Her practice begins as conservation: discarded or rejected objects from public sites or domestic residences are salvaged and brought back to her studio for restoration. Drawing on her background as a hypnotherapist and energy healer, she then communes with these objects in a process of addition and subtraction that involves layers of plaster and pigment that are sanded and drilled away with heavy industrial tools.
Formally, her expanded paintings and sculptural objects engage directly with the artist's environs. In hand-blending plasters, industrial pigments, and waxy oil pastels, she also folds in the air, smell, and temperature of Hong Kong and its movements of people. This results in an image that is both a palimpsest and landscape portrait, at once a reference to the contemporary conditions of place and a psychological study of society, memory, migration, and change.