Maria Ying-May Cheung

Maria Ying-May Cheung is an artist based in Hong Kong who primarily works with photography. Her artistic practice is rooted in her exploration of preserving, retaining, and exploring the historical perspectives of everyday life, capturing the passage of time. Her works utilize different photographic methods and mediums to reveal her feelings, emotions and memories of the people, places, and things that she encounters. She is particularly interested in depicting still life and objects as they connect people with collective memories. She embraces beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and even incomplete, which evidences the erosion of time. Through her works, she aims to interact with the audiences, evoking their awareness and appreciation of the changing and gradually disappearing era in time and history. She practices the spirit of simplicity in her photographs, leveraging simple compositions and structures, using clear lines, plain objects, and confined color palette. Her works leverage both traditional analog photography and contemporary digital work.