Geoffrey L. Cheung

I’m interested in the ways we carry memories and how they inform our sense of self. Inherited, intergenerational memories can often impede our efforts to actively shape our identities and to find purpose and belonging. In recognition of this, my practice explores our capacity to reshape memories through meditation and rituals of remembrance.

The act of layering—the accumulation of wax, organic matter, and even digital materials overtop images—mirrors my own rituals of memory transformation. I choose to create densely layered and repetitive works that are not always immediately legible. In some, wax and organic matter accumulate over the image plane, ebbing away at the fidelity of the past. In others, digital processes layer, alter, and build upon a photograph, revealing new interpretations and narratives. The act of remembering is iterative, palimpsestic. As memories are cycled and recycled, I invite viewers to slow, meander, and participate with meditations and rituals of their own. Narratives can be written anew, opening up space for new voices and futures. 

Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung (he/him) is an artist examining the way bodies hold and transform memories, from its compaction against familial narrative legacies, to its dilation through ritual and ceremony. Cheung’s practice is guided by diverse material and disciplinary traditions, creating works—including print, video, and installations—that incorporate photographic images, organic materials, and digital processes. His exploration of personal identity and cultural inheritance is informed by his lived experience as a queer second-generation Canadian settler of Chinese descent. His work synthesizes scientific and metaphysical perspectives, informed by his background as a Master of Science graduate from the University of Toronto. Cheung currently works and lives on the traditional First Nation territories of Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, as well as the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2024 from Emily Carr University.

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