Title

Cyanotype

22 ½ x 30 inches

Courtesy of the Artist and Tyler Park Presents

Estimated Retail Value: $5,500

Starting Bid: $2,750

Andrea Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose research-based practice examines colonial, post-colonial, and migration narratives, particularly within the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Utilizing materials like sugar, textiles, and archival imagery, she explores labor, maternal health, and environmental relationships. Her work often features intricate, intensive techniques to explore themes of resilience, memory, and the "seen and unseen" in historical narratives.

Untitled, a striking cyanotype, comes from Chung’s interest in photography and its relationship with the Caribbean; its imagery examine the lionfish as a metaphor for colonial expansion and impact. She explains, “The development of early photography came after the end of slavery in the Caribbean and the only pre-emancipation images that exist are paintings and drawings commissioned by the colonial regimes for propaganda purposes […] For the past few years I have been collecting articles about the lionfish invasion in the Caribbean. They have been destroying coral reefs and since they are non-native, they have no local predators. Their invasion is a fitting metaphor for colonization in at least two different ways: they are non-natives that are reshaping their environment to serve themselves but they were also brought there without consideration for their will.”