Kristina Chan’s practice utilises narrative and site specificity to evoke a felt history. Inspired by postimpressionism, Japanese prints, and traditional printmaking and the history of photography, her work explores the boundaries between individual and collective memory, and how these colliding narratives can affect our interpretation of space.
Chan works within remote, endangered, and constructed environments to craft landscapes that vibrate between the untouched and ephemeral. She uses landscape as a metaphor for resilience, often depicting regrowth in the wake of natural disaster, invasive species, and human impact. Using the mechanisms of lithography, etching and mono printing, she bridges the photographic and painterly languages that printmaking can uniquely offer.