Moving Image
Zijing Zhao
Zijing Zhao was born in Sichuan, China,1997, and received her undergraduate degree in Renmin University of China, School of Art.
She received distinction for her postgraduate dissertation Earth Heritage at the Royal College of Art.
She formed the artist group DIRD www.dird.monster with artist Rui Shi in 2020.
Exhibitions
"Apple りんご”, Art Museum of Renmin University of China, Beijing, 2018
Read backwards: a way to remember, 508 gallery, London, 2019
Work In Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2019
Togetherness, Assembly Point Gallery, London, 2019
Plastic Tongue, 5156ltd, London, 2019
302_Redirect https://www.302redirect.net/ , Contemporary Art Practice Festival, Royal College of Art, 2020
Inspired by science fiction and mythology, Zijing's works combine the concept of "change" in Taoism with the use of video, painting, internet, AR technology as mediums to explore feminism, and the relationship between the real and the virtual. She examines the original gender structures and ideologies of human civilization, and considers the unequal narrative structure of the hero's journey, in which women are perpetually weak or evil. She tries to rewrite the role of women in narrative works. At the same time, she ponders the role of art in the end of the world: where will art go when humanity is facing catastrophe? How will we view and create art when the space of our reality is infinitely compressed?
still from Mountain of Flames(trailer)
still from Mountain of Flames(trailer)
In Collaboration with:
Buried, Awakened, Reborn in the Mountain of Flames — Please click the "launch project" icon to view the website sculpture, Chrome is recommended, models usually take 30-50 seconds to load, music takes longer, so please be patient and wait for the sacrifice to begin. Use left click to rotate, two fingers to zoom, right click to pan (three fingers on ipad and iphone).
still from the web page
still from the web page
>>>> Chrome is recommended, models usually take 30-50 seconds to load, music usually take longer, so please be patient and wait for the sacrifice to begin. Use left click to rotate, two fingers to zoom, right click to pan (three fingers on ipad and iphone).
Buried, Awakened, Reborn in the Mountain of Flames is a web sculpture in which Zijing Zhao and Rui Shi present core concepts of their animation work "Mountain of Flames" which concerns changing identities. The page constantly shifts between light and dark, with animated characters standing silently on snowy mountains, illuminated by fire and hidden in the shadows. The snowy mountains freeze in time, showing a catastrophe as if it were an eternal monument.
In Collaboration with:
🔪✧No reflections here, as well as magic.✧🔪 — Open it with iphone or ipad's browser, click on the Icon on the top right screen to view the AR work. One finger to adjust the distance, two finger to scale, spin and move, click the Icon below screen to take pictures and video. You're very welcome to send me the pictures you took.: 0zijing0@gmail.com
photo credit to @loliloveworld
photo credit to Zhixuan Zeng
>>> https://myarbusket2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/24-04-2020+13-04-53.usdz <<<
Paste this link and open it in your mobile device’s(ios only) browser, click on the Icon on the top right screen to receive my art work delivery. One finger to adjust the distance, two finger to scale, spin and move, click the Icon below screen to take pictures and video. Adjust this installation to the size of real objects, come close to the mirrors, waters, candles, look at these shiny, perfectly real surfaces. Put them anywhere you like, let them form your private gallery. You can do everything in this fantastic 3D world, except to see your own reflections. This is a world with no reflections, no lights, as well as magic.
You're very welcome to send me the pictures you took.: 0zijing0@gmail.com
