My mother died when I was 2 and I started to realize that all my memories associated with her are either constructed with objects (especially still & moving images) related to her or
stories about her told by people who have known her. This on-going project started as a project to “rediscover” my mother, however, through the process of piling up data (gathering photographs and home videos related to her, objects possessed by her, site visit of places she’d been to, interviews with people that have known her...), a strong urge to communi
Post-mortem Portrait of My Mother, Evelyn Chung-Jenewein is a work that I have developed from this project. It is an ongoing project about finding memories/presence of my mother, who have died when I was 2. The work consist of small pieces that separately deny my
mother’s death, recapture her presence, fictionalize the coexistence of me and her, fabricate the stories of her and familiarize her with audiences.
(The text is provided by the student)我母親在我 2 歲的時候去世了，而我開始意識到所有與她的回憶，要麽是關於她的東西 (尤其是動靜態相片)，要麽是從別人聽到她的故事。這個項目開始時是去重新探索我的母親，但透過資料收集後 (收集相片和有關她的短片、她處理過的東西、她去過的地方以及曾與她面談的人)，產生了一種想和媽媽溝通的强烈衝動。
APA: CHUNG, Mark鍾正. (2014). Trans-Mortem Portrait of My Mother, Evelyn Chung-JeneweinTrans-Mortem Portrait of My Mother, Evelyn Chung-Jenewein. Retrieved from HKBU Heritage: https://heritage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/routes/view/ids/HER-010889
MLA: CHUNG, Mark鍾正. "Trans-Mortem Portrait of My Mother, Evelyn Chung-JeneweinTrans-Mortem Portrait of My Mother, Evelyn Chung-Jenewein". HKBU Heritage. HKBU Library, 2014. Web. 25 Mar. 2025. <https://heritage.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/routes/view/ids/HER-010889>.
