Photography (MA)
Zehua Wang
Zehua grew up in Xinjiang, a very remote area in Northern-West China, where has infinite landscape of desert, grassland and mountains. Alongside with her education track—— going to Peking University at 19 and then Royal College of Art at 23, her personal experience is an epitome of whole modernization —— from the underdeveloped small city to highly divided and efficient metropolis. Life in big city is extremely convenient and fast but squeezes people’s personal time and space. The modernity is like an over-whelming machine, keeping attracting more people jump into this entirety and create miracle collectively, but on the cost of individual freedom sacrifice.
Will there be a good solution or balance of this contradiction?
Can art heal people’s numb and tired heart?
She will keep chasing the answer with her visual art.
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The concept of “The Other Shore” in Buddhism interweaves a timeless world, mostly after death, where people will gain permanent peace and love, to against “This Shore” which means our temporal lives. People in this era are cultivated to have a fast and efficient lifestyle, building up the omnipotent social ego but with rare pure time to percept this moment. I use photography as a therapy, trying to extend the time of this second, to draw the viewers for a timeless memory/dream land, to be “ferried away to the other shore”. This is my gentle protest to this era.
Medium:
Kozo Japanese Fine Art Paper Inject PrintSize:
28*24cm
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The electric lights over our heads in skyscrapers somehow demonstrates the structure of modern society: fragmented, atomized individuals function together in order. It lights up the working space and enables us to work over the night. Only in this very professionally-divided pattern can we co-operate efficiently. However, individuality is forced to vanished under this silent script.
Medium:
Luster Inject Print
Innerland
According to the traditional Chinese medicine concept “Qi”, apart from the flesh, there is a flowing energy moves around our body, being the source of inner harmonious transformation, protecting the body and connecting it with nature. I visualized this dynamic system via photography into 6 human-like figures, trying to make it work like totem and inspires people for self-meditation and self-awareness.