Tam Sze Yan 譚詩茵
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She works across installation, moving image and painting. Her work is guided by her curiosity about how the unseen passes into the visible—how subliminal tension, emotional imbalance, or subjective perception can reverberate beneath the surface of seemingly normal existence.
She frequently takes inspiration from social norms, familial ties, and casual observation. Yet rather than presenting them as documentation, she distorts, exaggerates, and re-stages them through a fictional lens. With a sense of humour that borders on absurdity, her work unsettles realism and slips into a dreamlike language.
Moving fluidly between media, Tam explores the friction between emotional intimacy and structural control—how people relate to each other when roles blur, rules break down, or communication falters. Her installations often involve subtle disruptions to space or image logic; her videos combine scripted performance with improvisation and childlike interventions. Painting, for her, is another site where mental landscapes and social distortion collide. Tam makes fiction a way to tell the truth about emotions by composing tales that are almost believable.
2025Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2025The Art of CUHK 2025 Graduation Exhibition, CUHK, Hong Kong
2023
Cape Town Artist-In-Residence 2023 Exhibition, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2021
Neo Anthropocene, chi K11 art space, Hong Kong