Jianze Zhao

As an artist, I am concerned with community life and co-creation. Many of my artistic practices are inspired by the process of analyzing the relationship between social observation and individual life. With curiosity of community life and co-creation, in 2023, I joined Lucky pot, an Asian art community group in London where we build relationships and work on artistic practices together. The group members include students of various educational backgrounds, gender identities, and neurodiversity. My personal art works are also closely related to the group.

I am a political artist. Someone who thinks about social involvement from the audience. Thinking about the physical art of looking and touching. My work is a kind of map. A map of ideas and place both real and imagined. A map that includes individual presence and symbiosis found in the world and the connections between them.

My graduation work continues my past artistic practice with an ongoing focus on the theme of CARE. It is an environmental participatory work consisting of three installations including SEAL which is a tent, the second installation outside of Seal is a collective practice called Trouble Net, which was created by participants of my workshop at Luckypot Space and myself. The third installation is titled Symboitic Floating Nest.