VENICE BIENNALE

ZOE CHONG-SEN

The European Cultural Centre presented the work of Seychellois artist Zoe Chong-Sen during the Art Biennial exhibition "Personal Structures" in 2022 in Venice.

Zoe Chong-Seng is one of the most highly regarded figurative painters working in the Indian Ocean region. Her subjects are invariably ‘ordinary’ Seychellois people doing the kind of things that ordinary people do. They wash dirty dishes, they hang around waiting for buses, they stagger home under the weight of heavy bags of shopping, they sprawl on the couch and watch television. One body of recent work is centred upon people in transit – the context here being a domestic and, in terms of distance, a modest one.