Leung Chi Yi
My interdisciplinary practice spans installation, video, sound, painting and sculptural objects, exploring the intersections of memory, identity, history and politics. As I relocate my practice amidst censorship, I focus on exploring the inter-relational space between personal and collective diasporic identities, seeking to create open spaces for dialogue and reflection.
Protean is a multi-channel video, sound and light installation. It critically reimagines the iconic Red-White-Blue material associated with Hong Kong identity, reinterpreted through edited live-stream footage from the 2019 protests. Within the work, the three colours that reappear in the protests — blood (red), tear gas (white), and dyed water from water cannons (blue) — are used to create a collage of moving images and sound. Through their distortion and lack of synchronicity, the fragments reflect how collective memory and historical understanding of an event change over time. Like my fading and fractured memories, and my positionality regarding this piece of history, it is protean, unstable and delicate.
Leung Chi Yi, Protean, Still image from video, 0min1sec, 2025, Image courtesy of the Artist.
Leung Chi Yi, 傘[saan3] (Umbrella), Umbrellas and sounds, dimensions variable, 2024, Documentation by Fester Demos.
Leung Chi Yi, 淚[leoi6] (Tears), Acrylic cube filled with smoke 16,223 times, 28 x 28 x 28cm, 2024, Image courtesy of the Artist.
Leung Chi Yi, New Red-White-Blue for Hong Kong, Wood, acrylic, blue-dyed water, smoke, Hongkongers' blood, 472 x 595 x 66mm, 2025, Image courtesy of the Artist.
Leung Chi Yi, Dialogue, Red-white-blue bag, wood, mugs, cushions, dimensions variable, 2024, Image courtesy of the Artist.
Leung Chi Yi, Protean, Video, 3'00" excerpt 4K 3840 x 2160, 2025
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne