Lexie Z (Chenyuhan Zuo) was born in 1998, China.
Artist/Photographer/Drummer/Witch
Her areas of research include cults, the occult, punk music, black metal music and the human subconscious.
Sweet child of a bad revolution.
"NotoriOus and wild takes ME where I am gonna ShiNe"
Born and raised in a family that lacked emotional connection and support, Lexie carried psychic abilities from an early age that made her a freak among her peers, and she attempted suicide three times as a teenager, which set the pessimistic tone of her work.
As an adult, she turned all her grief into motivation to make art and play drums, and now lives in London as a metal drummer and artist.
She specializes in connecting the five human senses, especially translating the auditory aspects inspired by various rock music, the subconscious of the brain during psychic sessions into visual language.
Her works are influenced by many aspects of pop culture, such as Quentin Tarantino's violent aesthetics, Vivienne Westwood's punk style, Bring Me the Horizon's music, Scandinavian black metal music, and Japanese manga.
For the past year, she has been focusing on the use of small shiny objects as decoration to create a maximalist still-life photography and a post-human concept.
These works show a new kind of human consciousness exploration and subconscious representations through completely anti-portrait still-life photography.
With four colors representing different scenes and themes, the artist uses fake mannequin heads and various shiny decorative objects to demonstrate the image and concept of the post-human.
Ju: a futile repair performance. 2022. Photography, performance art.
Ju: a futile repair performance is a piece of photography work based on performance art. The artist combined her own Chinese cultural background with the repair method (Ju, which works like a staple gun) to repair and record the urban and natural landscapes of Melbourne, and then use the same method as Pierre Huyghe1 which is to print the picture obtained from the first shooting, put it back to the original location for the second shoot and record. This method of using a camera as a recording tool, overlapping time and space, originally originated from Jeff Wall's discussion of the photographic medium.2
Using a staple gun to repair damaged soil, walls, floors, plants, etc. is essentially futile, which is an artist's interpretation of the concept of "repair" and ecological environmental issues. What kind of repairs are inevitable? What kinds of items are damaged? What needs to be repaired? And whether this kind of repair really works at all, these questions are put forward to the audience.
1 Pierre Huyghe, Chantier BarbeĢs-Rochechouart
, Paris, 1994, Photography, Installation(4x3m). 2 Jeff wall. Picture for Women. 1979. Photography
