Jingzheng Hu, born in 1999, is an artist from China. They graduated from the second studio of the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China with a bachelor's degree in 2021, and studied printmaking at the Royal College of Art, receiving a master's degree in 2023.
This image is taken from section of his graduation work. His works mainly explore the internal relationship between individuals and society, through subconscious creative methods to create images.
His research topic is based on the philosophical concepts of the "desiring- machine" and "the body without organs", as referred to by Deleuze and Guatari in their book 'Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The "desiring- machine" mainly elaborates on the control of consumers in capitalist society, introducing production and scarcity into desire, and deliberately changing new value orientations to create unnecessary needs for people. The "body without organs" is a body without solid tissue, a body that escapes from its socially connected, standardised, symbolic, and subjective state. And the operation of production is a systematic and organized machine. In order to escape this deliberate systematic organization, he attempted to break free from this control by constructing an organ free body.
Jingzheng uses printmaking as a medium to create a kind of free surreal desire body space, through the use of linear narrative and black and white images, to escape from the reality of spectacle society. Line corrosion is the most intuitive manifestation of his subconscious creation, and he uses black and white images because they have deeper and hidden meanings. This work is attempting to explore the internal relationship between different time periods, body consciousness and the social environment.
The six series of works are named "Desire Ladder", each depicting the physical state of my imagination at different important stages of life, from birth to aging, from chaos to Tai Ji. I view society as a large-scale game, and the ladder symbolizes the threshold set by social rules, which are not only my path to "success" but also my path to "escape".
