Stephanie Teng is a multimedia artist exploring the liminal through the subliminal. Her practice examines the tension and tenderness between emotional states that cultivate resilience in the face of fear. Her practice is rooted in experiences of generational displacement, cultural hybridity, and collective healing. Moving fluidly between sculpture, photography, video, sound, and text, Teng investigates themes of belonging and erasure; presence and absence; grief and transformation. Influenced by her background in psychology and photography, her work looks at how perception is shaped by systems of control; how patterns become rituals; and how new speculative narratives of ecology and home can be written through the lens of decolonisation. Teng’s process is rhizomatic, often rooted in rigorous research into ancient philosophies, languages and mysticisms that translate into scores for witnessing, remembering, and reimagining. Through this methodology, Teng challenges prevailing ontologies of the human condition by offering poetic interventions into the binaries that define our existence. By humanising what society often pathologises, she invites audiences into moments of Jungian synchronicity—encounters that activate the collective unconscious and invite new ways of seeing, feeling, and being.
Her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Camden Art Centre, Cookhouse Gallery, Royal College of Art, 67 York Street Gallery, hARTslane Gallery, Square Street Gallery (HK), Art Central Hong Kong, The Mills (HK), Centre for Heritage, Art and Textiles, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Eaton Hong Kong and The Contemporary Art Digest (LA). She has been featured in Tatler (HK), Prestige (HK), Madame Figaro (HK), City Magazine (HK), Elle HK, Shado Magazine (UK), The DoDo (UK) and PhotoMonitor (UK) to name a few. She has also guest lectured at Hong Kong University, City University School of Creative Media, Royal College of Art, Asia Society x Art Central, South China Morning Post and Today at Apple.
