Deconstruct materiality. Reconstruct spirituality.
Deconstruct materiality. Reconstruct spirituality.
Deconstruct materiality. Reconstruct spirituality.
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Construct a state of mind.
We cherish the totem of life. We pass on life with heritage. In difficult times, we stay alive to seek beyond.
Yi Zhu is inspired by the totem and pottery culture of ancient China, along with the papercutting techniques in the Han Dynasty of China. He utilizes deconstruction and reconstruction to create a new relationship among colors, with the perception of expansion and contraction of life.
The creation of emotion from Yi Zhu is to awake the sense of life, empathy and love.
Our emotions are created because of the society, family, people, species and the disturbances of environment. Yi Zhu creates the subjective perception on the canvas with the objective perception outside of the canvas.
This is the spirit and style of Yi Zhu in creating a series of paintings of emotions.
The oil painting My World and This World No.02 won the Gold Award in the Painting category at the Spring Session of the UK FADA Future Art & Design Awards in 2025.
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Posthuman implant
Implantation, when we face AI and the awakening of AI, the implantation of post-human life is the re-creation of life. We want to have a power like AI, but we are overwhelmed by our perception. We will be implanted.
Red is a desire.
What art is might not be an important question.
Art reveals a dependency between subjectivity and objectivity. It deconstructs and reconstructs the life and world that we are so used to, by utilizing the common structures and space, so that we could sense the spirit of life.
The series of Red Cloth is a storytelling both inside and outside of the canvas that make us sensed and awake. We always would like to hide the fidelity of life, but it can always be found. It is a nature force of life. You can break red things, while you cannot eliminate red.
The series of Red Cloth is a language without a logic structure, which break through the hinderance to the fidelity of life through the physical contraction and expansion of humanity.
We always want to get away from structured logic and fixed space. It is the way of life. We break through the hinderance to red. The contraction and expansion of red is there and we cannot ignore the desire of life in red.
Sense the untamed life both on canvas and outside of the canvas.
