“The iridescent color that Cheung uses in these paintings links them with pachinko or pinball machines in which science fiction battles take place. They are the colors of hallucinogenic visions in which an aura scintillates around forms, beautiful but on the edge of painful. […] Cheung’s complex paintings – complex in the multiple layers and variety of technical means to create complex surfaces – embody the complex and often internally contradictory view of the world and especially of history not unlike that of cultural critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin.”

© Marilyn Zeitlin, 2009