Iris Lingyu Zhang

Past Exhibitions

25.10.2024 - 05.11.2024
MYSTICAL, Fox Yard Studio , 6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB

03.08.2024 - 03.08.2024
sound field folding, hundred years gallery London , 13 Pearson St, London E2 8JD

26.07.2024 - 01.08.2024
mres rca 2024 research journeys, the hanger gallery , 15-25 Howie Street Battersea, London SW11 4NL

29.04.2024 - 01.05.2024
fragment for the future; movement, the hanger gallery , 15-25 Howie Street Battersea, London SW11 4NL

31.01.2024 - 31.01.2024
Launch Party, Thingy Cafe , 1 Trowbridge Road, London E9 5LD

13.12.2023 - 13.12.2023
Whispers of the unseen: Sonic Alchemy, iklectik , 20 Carlisle Lane, London SE1 7LG

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Iris Lingyu Zhang is a multi-media artist and researcher based between London and Beijing, whose work explores the intricate relationship between body and space. Drawing on a deep well of auto-ethnographical research in psychology and philosophy, Iris delves into the emotional and spiritual layers of human experience. Her art invites viewers to reflect on the subtle, often unseen connections between our inner worlds and the spaces we inhabit. Through a unique blend of mediums, she creates immersive environments that evoke introspection, challenging perceptions of identity and existence. Iris' practice not only bridges cultures but also transcends the boundaries of the physical and the metaphysical.

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Past Exhibitions

03.08.2024 - 03.08.2024
sound field folding, hundred years gallery London , 13 Pearson St, London E2 8JD

26.07.2024 - 01.08.2024
mres rca 2024 research journeys, the hanger gallery , 15-25 Howie Street Battersea, London SW11 4NL

13.12.2023 - 13.12.2023
Whispers of the unseen: Sonic Alchemy, iklectik , 20 Carlisle Lane, London SE1 7LG

29.04.2024 - 01.05.2024
fragment for the future; movement, the hanger gallery , 15-25 Howie Street Battersea, London SW11 4NL

25.10.2024 - 05.11.2024
MYSTICAL, Fox Yard Studio , 6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB

31.01.2024 - 31.01.2024
Launch Party, Thingy Cafe , 1 Trowbridge Road, London E9 5LD

The Tent

2024

GBP 2000

The Tent

Video

The Tent is a research-based multimedia artwork that uses autoethnographic methodology. It addresses the struggle of female subjectivity against the Big Other in the context of cultural colonialism and sexualisation. The artist conducted a long-term third-perspective observation of her own dating life, integrating emotions into intimate spaces through poetic graphic narrative. Using the method of integration in self-archiving and invoking psychoanalytic theories to parse the textual graphics, the artist attempts to find a connection between the environment and herself, thus removing the sense of dislocation and alienation caused by the dramatic environmental change. In the process, the self-narrative paradox of hysterical discourse is revealed. The emotional stories symbolised by the structure are built into the in-between world. It actively interprets both the intimate space and the individual, isolating the individual from the environment, but at the same time reconstituting a new way of connecting the individual to the environment. The tent, as part of the artist's body, becomes a daydream made of the body, but covering it, where the visible and the invisible happen simultaneously, interpreting the situation of the divided female subject. She exists in the city, she disappears in the city. It is grotesque and must be interpreted by others.

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The Body in Blue

2024

GBP 2000

The Body in Blue

Video

The Body in Blue is a multi-media work that explores the close connection between the physical body and the divine body within a feminist theoretical framework. The artist symbolizes the body trunk and alienates it into an abstract vessel for divinity and spiritual rituals. In this process, the body forms a distorted vortex, while the spirit plunges into this blue abyss.

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No.219

2023

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No.219

Print on canvas

106 X 10 X 76 cm

No.219 are images of women derived from the artist's experience of severing her self-identity. It tells the story of the repression and pain experienced by women born in the 90's while growing up in East Asian culture, and the subsequent alienation of their spiritual bodies after being exploited by dogma for a long period of time. The artist digitally reconstructs the images from containers, frames, flowers, and gestures through the connection of symbolic language, adopting a crystalline geometric approach to form the spiritual matrix of Cyborg.

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