Gordon Cheung UK, b. 1975
New Territories, 2025
Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, PLA filament and sand on linen
78 1/2 x 177 x 2 in
(200 x 400 x 5 cm)
(200 x 400 x 5 cm)
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This multimedia painting vividly juxtaposes China’s historical vulnerability to Western imperialism with its current position as an economic powerhouse. In the foreground, the British iron gunboat Nemesis confronts the archway...
This multimedia painting vividly juxtaposes China’s historical vulnerability to Western imperialism with its current
position as an economic powerhouse. In the foreground, the British iron gunboat Nemesis confronts the archway
of the looted Yuanmingyuan, with a 3D-printed view of today’s Kowloon Peninsula spread out behind it. In the
distance, Financial Times newspaper fragments form Mount Sinai and Mount Song, and the constellations above
mark out China’s Belt and Road Initiative. By layering historical imagery with stock market data, Gordon Cheung
crafts a surreal landscape that maps the complex intersections of capital flows, cultural identity and the rise and
fall of civilizations.
position as an economic powerhouse. In the foreground, the British iron gunboat Nemesis confronts the archway
of the looted Yuanmingyuan, with a 3D-printed view of today’s Kowloon Peninsula spread out behind it. In the
distance, Financial Times newspaper fragments form Mount Sinai and Mount Song, and the constellations above
mark out China’s Belt and Road Initiative. By layering historical imagery with stock market data, Gordon Cheung
crafts a surreal landscape that maps the complex intersections of capital flows, cultural identity and the rise and
fall of civilizations.