{"id":520,"date":"2025-08-16T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samanthachang.art\/?page_id=520"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:03:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samanthachang.art\/?page_id=520","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"520\" class=\"elementor elementor-520\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ed4630 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8ed4630\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed41b44 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ed41b44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Samantha Chang Ling Shan (b.2003) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance, ceramics, and poetry. Her practice stems from a state of in-betweeness, drawing from her experiences in the UK as an immigrant from Hong Kong. She is interested in navigating memory, space, myth, and the body. Her work explores how beliefs about identity collapse and reconstruct through migration. This transformation unfolds through the interplay between personal and collective histories, where storytelling becomes a vessel for examining belonging and displacement.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e7a4d9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8e7a4d9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0bdb4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"d0bdb4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc73d97 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"bc73d97\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0933c86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0933c86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Exhibitions<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Undercurrent ESEA Sound and Performance Art Festival, Copeland Gallery | 2025<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Rising Sun Art Centre: Performance Night | 2025<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Ultra Artus, RSA Finalist Degree Show, Reading | 2025<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Interim Egg and Spoon Race, RSA, Reading | 2025<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Hypha Studios: Tales from the Sea, Tales of the Land | 2024<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Wilderness Commons, Fringe Arts Bath | 2024<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>ELSEWORLD: an immersive experience, Aures London | 2024<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Hypha Studios: Entropy 02, the meeting point | 2024\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Hypha Studios: Entropy, an exhibition of Chaos | 2024<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Lewd Crude and Tragic, South Street Art Centre, Reading | 2023<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><strong>Arachnophobia and Other Tales: The Placard Parade, Thames Tower, Reading | 2023<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Chang Ling Shan (b.2003) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance, ceramics, and poetry. Her practice stems from a state of in-betweeness, drawing from her experiences in the UK as an immigrant from Hong Kong. She is interested in navigating memory, space, myth, and the body. 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