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By Chris Siu
Artist Bio
Chris Siu is an artist and photographer living and working in Narrm Melbourne. Chris works primarily in medium format analogue photography. He is drawn to this photographic process because it is produced and cared for entirely by hand; from capturing and developing, to printing and digitising the analogue images. Informed by the traditions of documentary photography, Chris’s work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. His practice is profoundly influenced by the flux of sociopolitical happenings in his homeland Hong Kong and his ever-changing place within it. Through exploring notions of layered histories and geopolitics, Chris’s work seeks to offer a reflection on personal and communal experience, pivoting around representations of civil unrest, diasporic experience, cultural displacement and marginality within contemporary existence.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
This pair of images is part of an early-stage project that explores the subtle and pervasive remnants of history, trauma, and memory embedded within the Australian landscape. Through medium format analogue photography, these works examine seemingly mundane settings, subtly connecting to broader themes of geopolitics, urban transformation, and social upheaval.
 
 Informed by personal experiences of socio-political trauma in Hong Kong and the subsequent migration to Australia, the project adopts a restrained, contemplative approach to interrogate the social fabric of a seemingly peaceful Western democracy. Capturing urban peripheries, traces of conflict, human intervention, and signs of neglect, these images aim not to reflect on a specific event but to evoke the broader human condition and its influence on the spaces we inhabit—and, by extension, on our contemporary lives and identities.