Stephanie Kong

Stephanie’s artistic practice explores the relationship between spaces and their unseen histories. Through travel, she immerses herself in temporary homes and neighborhoods, uncovering traces of past inhabitants and capturing aesthetic moments within personal settings. She is particularly drawn to private and public spaces—rooms and buildings—as man-made vessels that hold fragments of time, bridging the past, present, and future.

Her aesthetic sensibility is shaped by a diverse range of influences, from the films of Jim Jarmusch and the short stories of Raymond Carver to the music and art of John Lurie and The Lounge Lizards. The painterly narratives of R.B. Kitaj resonate with her approach, reflecting a fascination with layered, fragmented storytelling. She is also influenced by the world of fashion, particularly the designs of Dries Van Noten, whose rich textures, patterns, and atmospheric storytelling align with her own exploration of mood and memory. The spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane informs the more meditative dimensions of her practice, inspiring a sense of inwardness, transcendence, and emotional improvisation.

Across mediums, her work evokes an atmosphere of quiet observation, capturing ephemeral moments where the boundaries between memory, reality, and imagination dissolve.