Title: hold me closer (2023)
“hold me closer”, is a series of engravings on acrylic, the latest exploration into chan’s parquet series. It revisits familiar themes of the domestic and how sentimentali- ties get embedded within these surfaces. Viewing the engravings as an extension of Chan’s body, he examines the ways in which queer individuals negotiate public spaces, unraveling the layers of societal constructs that shape our understanding of the queer body.
The engravings are abstractions of instances captured, playing with the permeability of the acrylic, Chan con- fronts the dichotomy between the private and public self. These sculptures, navigate the tension between visibility and invisibility, making visible the often unseen, unheard, or shamed experiences of the queer body.
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