Garden Assembly (Detail), 2025. Layered archival prints, 24" x 18".
"Studies in Endearment," 2025
"Studies in Endearment," explores the ways we relate to the past through the inheritance of familial and cultural narratives. Through the deliberate fusion of personal archival photography and artificial intelligence, the series examines the ways digital technologies mediate our perceptions of reality. Family photographs from geographically distant locations, taken at different times over the past century, are spaced apart on a shared digital canvas. The gaps between these photographs are then filled by AI, merging personal and family photographs with artificial intelligence, creating layered images that question our reliance on digital technologies to store, access, and interpret our past. These fabricated worlds simulate continuity, blurring the boundaries of fact and fiction. They reflect the artist's desire to establish coherence within an incongruous and interrupted history shaped by generations of displacement and migration. By relinquishing control, Cheung explores how digital interfaces increasingly mediate our understanding of self within cultural and familial narratives.

Speculation and fiction offer sites of possibility and resistance—a queering of history. By making visible how AI fills historical gaps, this work acknowledges technology's potential for reimagining marginalized histories while remaining critical of its limitations. This approach doesn't seek to replace authentic histories but rather to visualize their absences, creating space for more inclusive historical narratives within the community.

Exhibition History
"Bridging Borders" 2025, Coordenadas Residencia, Buenos Aires







