Artist Profile Edward Tsui

Tsui’s sculptural, cement-cast forms poetically weigh strength against impermanence.

Artist Statement

They appear in groups and are seen in solitude to mark venerable gestures.

Columns rise, hold, and perhaps falter. They stand with resolve, are built to resist and endure. But an objective is not a promise. Time weathers and purpose eludes with age. A column’s strength may have its fragility foretold. This work examines the lives of columns as support and symbol—of vitality, permanence, and their flickering existences.

To immerse within and let water take over our eyes: it can be poured onto the pod and glide through the crevices to anoint the columns.

Artist Biography

Edward Tsui lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He studied visual arts in Hong Kong before completing architectural studies in Manchester, England. Over time, he has immersed himself as a visual artist primarily engaging in cement castings from molds and different media. With three-dimensionality, Edward expresses his preoccupations on how the human condition impacts the built-environment, and vice versa. Moreover, he seeks to explore the primordial responses people have on architecture and how nature reacts upon the built forms. Buildings, according to him, resonant with signs that are imbued with signifieds. They have stories to be told.