NADA New York 2024

Diptych composed of two (2) drawings, 32 x 24 cm each.

Each part involved 4 hours of writing potentially seditious sentences and words, in two languages, until the rectangle is nearly completely filled with ink.

The work is part of the “Potentially Seditious” project, where Chingsum Jessye Luk makes a deliberate effort to render text illegible, as the only way to express certain ideas is to hide and censor them.

After Hong Kong’s national security law was passed in 2020, certain slogans or words could be considered seditious and people who display or utter them in public could be arrested and prosecuted as a threat to national security.