NADA New York 2024

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

Deconstructed protest slogans from the protest movement in Hong Kong in 2019, based on images found on the Internet. On the left, Chinese slogans deconstructed into individual strokes; on the right, English ones deconstructed into individual characters, superimposed on top of each other

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.