Cheque or Savings?

Acrylic and digital print on paper
Diptych: (2) 240 cm x 90 cm

This diptych consists of two panels, one digitally printed and the other hand painted. In this work, Fan offers commentary on what she terms ‘cultural consumerism’. Working as a waitress in her family owned Chinese restaurant the artist is bombarded with an abundance of bills, receipts and credit card print outs on a daily basis.  For the artist, the receipt became a metaphor for the sale of her own culture and identity. 

The large scale of these receipts become overwhelming to the viewer as they are usually considered as something trivial or mundane in the act of purchase and sale.  The two oversized receipts thus create a paradoxical play on Chinese cultural stereotypes the artist faces in contemporary consumerist culture.