ULTRASOUND
The Ultrasound series depicts subterranean spaces depicted as wombs. The premise of the series draws reference to reported events of flash floods in a place fraught with overpopulation. Reservoirs both natural and man-made become
the site where bodies are hidden or incubated.
The Cascade Upper Floors and Underground maps out a flood which has swept detritus into a shopping atrium from the upper floors. The flood cascades down the escalators and atrium, funnelling soil and earth deeper into the basement
levels. This eventually forms a nesting ground at the lowest level. The mall has been evacuated of people and the architecture immediately becomes involute and cavernous with an atrium brimming with organic matter.
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"An imagined flood has washed large quantities of earth from a mysterious underground chamber onto the surface level. This seemingly unconscious matter then takes on a life of its own as it is hypnotically drawn back to its point of origin. Forming the necessary life force of curious human forms, incubating with the depths of the earth, each particle takes on a primal significance as they go back to ground. Chua's work marks this slow retreat through a series of disorientating images that chart rhythm and form through an alternative approach to space. Creating a sense of liminality or in between state of ritualistic change, the exhibition provokes a tense anticipation of who, or more importantly what, emerges when super natural forces are disturbed."-Eva
McGovern
"ULTRASOUND #3", 2012, ACRYLIC AND SCREENPRINT WITH ENAMEL ON LINEN,180 X 118.5CM
"ULTRASOUND #5", 2012, ACRYLIC AND SCREENPRINT WITH ENAMEL ON LINEN,180 X 118.5CM
"ULTRASOUND #8", 2012, ACRYLIC AND SCREENPRINT WITH ENAMEL ON LINEN,180 X 118.5CM
"THE CASCADE UNDERGROUND AND UPPER FLOORS", 2012, ACRYLIC AND SCREENPRINT WITH ENAMEL ON LINEN,170 X 278CM EACH