Artist Serene Hui on meaning-making, the impossibility of communication in an unknown environment, and voice modulation.
Artist Serene Hui
Ep.96 | Artist Serene Hui delved into meaning-making, the impossibility of communication in an unknown environment, the origins of scold, gossip and siren, voice modulation or how we understand voices within our body and how this impacts female leaders.
Serene Hui is a Hong Kong-born artist. Her practice is research-focused and multi-faceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text. Serene's work is involved in a discursive, artistic and political exploration of her own context, using the geographical distance from personal lived experiences to investigate the wider socio-political impact of how meaning is made and who has access to making it.
Her practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism for the ways it affects social structures, languages, psychology and its potential susceptibility for manipulation. In her works she addresses obscurity and nuances by creating an ontological shift of displacement - meaning to transform social conventions, normative ignorance, and language ambiguity into resistance, reflection and criticism of contemporary systems.
Serene’s works have been included at TENT (NL), Research Academy, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Para Site (Hong Kong) and Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong) among others. Her printmaking works are collected by Museum Meermanno - House of the Book (NL) and KB National Library of the Netherlands. She is an artist-in-residence at MMCA Seoul (South Korea); Nida Art Colony (Lithuania) and more. Serene’s artistic practice and exhibitions are supported by Stroom Den Haag and Mondriaan Fonds (NL).
Scold, as part of Scold, Gossip and Siren, Serene Hui
Scold, as part of Scold, Gossip and Siren, Serene Hui
Through The Glass, Darkly, Serene Hui
Website https://szelokserene.com
Instagram @clokserene
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