Wallis Chan,’ studio view’, 2025. Photographer: Kenneth Ka Chun Yu.
Fragments of Affection is an ongoing series that traces the fragile relationship between melancholy, memory and tenderness through my recurring character SiSi ,a symbolic extension of my inner self. Across multiple panels and compositions. SiSi drifts through translucent, dreamlike spaces where emotions dissolve into the texture of watercolor and wood grain.
Wallis Chan, ‘Whispering Stream’, 2025, Watercolor and color pencil on wood. Photographer: Kenneth Yu
In this series, though layering and repetition, utilizing the soft and translucent nature of watercolor paint, the series draws in viewers and suspends them in Sisi’s world of stillness and introspection, a landscape of memories, melancholy and transition.
Wallis Chan is a painter whose work drifts between memory, melancholy and tenderness, expressed through her recurring character SiSi, a symbolic extension of her inner self who traverses through dreamlike spaces where emotions and lamentations are explored through the medium of paint. Often drawing from childhood recollections and affective theory, Chan explore how vulnerability can be a form of resistance and strength.
