Samuel Chan
Artist's Statement
Embrace explores the beast not as something external to be defeated, but as something internal that is inherited, learned, and ultimately surrendered to. Comprised of one clear and one opaque resin form, the work uses materiality to speak to shifting temporal states of past, present and future. Two intertwined duck necks appear suspended between tenderness and violence, their entanglement suggesting a sense of fate, as though fragmented aspects of the self are drawn toward one another through states of becoming and unbecoming. The work gestures toward surrender as an act where fear, desire and selfhood are not resisted, but transfigured through intimacy.
Biography
Samuel Chan (b.1990) is an artist and designer living and working on Gadigal Country, Sydney.
His practice examines how identity is shaped through cultural, religious and algorithmic systems, and how these forces structure perception and lived experience. Working across sculpture, installation and performance, he develops materially driven processes that register instability, contradiction and transformation.
His work explores perception and identity as unstable conditions, where material, image and experience continually shift between legibility and collapse.
