Ziteng Zhang / 227
About
BA
03/2018 - 09/2019 Shanghai Theatre Academy, China, Photography
02/2019 - 12/2021 The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) / Bachelor of Design in Photography
Solo
06/2019 - 08/2019 Scars, Photograph Seris, Yuan ArtSpace, Hangzhou, China
12/2020 - 01/2021 Tonight, Walk on the Bridge, Public Performance, Sydney Habour Bridge, Sydney, Australia
04/2021 - 05/2021 Paradise Intro, 104 Space, Sydney, Australia
Selected Group
09/2019 Growing Wild in this Land, Abandoned government office building, Shandong, China
07/2020 Terrace Project, YJ ArtSpace, Hangzhou, China
10/2020 Her, M1 ArtSpace, Sydney, Australia
10/2021 Take Photo Art Festival, Liangzhu Cultural Art Center, Hangzhou, China
01/2023 Jin, LuckyPot, London, UK
03/2023 Useless, OXO Tower Wharf Bargehouse Gallery, London, UK
03/2023 Wa（0）IL, Tate Modern, London, UK
06/2023 III, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Statement
“There really are no such things as Art. There are only artists.” - Sir. Ernst Gombrich
Zhang Ziteng / 227 (b. 1999, China) is engaged in various media works, including large-scale installations, writing, and dynamic imagery. His current focus lies in the physical forms of media and their combinations and whether the placement of different media in an environment leads to quantitative analog transformations. He seeks to find his own existence in the reflection process of objects, and how to confront our needs and self-awareness in the era of instant gratification and neoliberalism. Through his practice, he aims to explore the biases, uncertainties, authenticity, and boundaries of self-awareness within specific real-life environments.
众生相
Medium: work on paper
Size: 41 x 23 inches
Wa（0）IL
Medium: Moving Image
0&1
0&1, Photo series, 2019 - 2021
This series of works also reflect the continuous transformation of my creative medium in three years, from film, installation, and microscope to digital media. In the process of my observation and self-examination, the identities of the two of us will change slightly over time over some uncertain factors.
Contradicting the most stereotypical, cliche understanding of what a heterosexual relationship is, I am more emotional, sometimes more capricious, and she is petite and rational. Mythological stories and religious visual symbols also metaphor the contradictions between the sexes in history, and they also specifically refer to and emphasize the inevitability of encounters and separation.
The shape of Your Back, Digital inkjet print, Light Box, 10x18 inches
Symbiosis shadow & light, C-type print, 12x19 inches
Jedi Tiantong / Devils Tower, C-type print, 34x10 inches
Chang'e's Touch & Emperor Yu Tames the Flood, Digital inkjet print, 34x48 inches
The shape of Our Back, Installation, Wood, Metal, Ceramics
0+0=1, Digital inkjet print, Lightbox, 30x14 inches
Medium: Multimedia
Misappropriation
Spring
How to take this photograph
The view of Leonardo Magrelli’s camera
Time is going forward
Medium: Digital inkjet print
Size: 40x50 inches
Solo Dance in the 'context'
Medium: Moving Image
III
Medium: Text
Size: A4