Jiangxin Zhang
fine art practice mlitt
Glasgow School of Art
Specialisms: / Photography / Fine Art
Location: Nanjing, China
Jiangxin Zhang
First Name: Jiangxin
Last Name: Zhang
Specialisms: / Photography / Fine Art
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My Location: Nanjing, China
University / College: Glasgow School of Art
Course / Program Title: fine art practice mlitt
About
Jiangxin Zhang (b. 1998) His work focuses on recreating unexplorable memories of the self and uses a variety of means to create images. He often incorporates his childhood memories to question their authenticity and observes how uncontrollable emotions flow when unrecognisable memories come into play. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2022.
My practice is a response to the endless fantasies I had about the world during my childhood, the first two years of my life, when I didn't see anyone other than members of my family, and the two years I spent in a room with a blue-green window, so that I grew up speaking very little and often entering into fantasies for no apparent reason in order to escape from reality. But the blue-green room left an everlasting but very faint trace in my mind. An encyclopaedia lasted throughout my childhood, after I had acquired basic reading skills. I constantly flipped through the chapter on the universe to fantasise about more distant worlds. I also used to spend quiet evenings looking at the sky through this window, pondering where the end of the immediate really was. To this day, when I recall those not-so-real nights of stargazing, I can barely tell if I imagined the stars, remembering them like a river of water pouring down from the sky, slowly gushing into the blue-green ocean in the distance. I tried to use digital technology and direct imaging of some luminous substances to recreate the colour of the window panes in the room, as well as the memory of what had not disappeared, and with this in mind I created a series of images that respond to my childhood of endless fantasies and unsearchable ends.
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