Michael + Chiyan Ho

We are an artist duo currently living and working in London. As second-generation immigrants from China, our work responds to the notions of cultural mismatch and subsequently cultural (re)discovery and identity. We take inspiration from our disparate experiences between two cultures, our Chinese heritage and our European upbringing. This combination of cultures helps bring to surface feelings of estrangement, (un)belonging and notions of home. 

Our collaborative approach to making emerges from the desire to locate a dialectical space in which to think through our individual and shared experiences and can be understood as a form of cultural articulation, and re-articulation. Always in the presence of one another’s ideas and criticisms, the essence of