ZIZI

After a period of living and studying in China, the United States, Europe and the UK, the multidisciplinary education and cultural background allows ZIZI to put forward the self-salvation and exploration of the split of self-identity and the state of cultural coexistence and disappearance from the perspective of both an 'outsider' and 'insider' under the context of globalisation. 

Drawing from Eastern and Western history's cultures and thought systems, her practice shuttles between different textile fibres and raw materials, combining traditional and modern crafts. She aestheticises scenes of everyday life together to reveal her primitive desire to make, engage and correspond with the flow of matters in transformation and exchange and let it develop naturally into her artistic language.

Under the collision of diverse cultures, how does my identity exist in the transitional environment?

Lao Zi's dialectics "The Movement of Tao" – there's an infinite oneness in the opposite forces of which they continually become and move towards each other in the circular movement, as the initial response to the changing environment in my primitive memory.

I use my spirit and body as a participant and tool in my daily artistic ritual. It enables me to correspond with the different materials, protein fibre (wool, mohair and silk), plant fibres (cotton and linen) and artificial fibres (polyamide), as my view of the trinity from the planet, engaged in the form of active and passive interweaving between the processes. 

By counting the changing numbers while working with the silver needle bed, motion-repeated regularly, shuttling through each other and floating in the surrounding air. It has brought me lost in the chaotic and twisted space and immersed in the action. The "static electricity" generated in the mutual friction can be explained by the structural characteristics of an antagonistic "force"–"stretchability". The sense of identity, belonging, insecurity pushed my inherent and consciousness to rebel against each other and to permeate.

From here, the intrinsic and extrinsic towards the flow of matter that exist in consciousness and perception inspired my conjecture. Under the ancient Chinese quality, the state of "overcoming firmness by gentleness", I may capture and perceive the shared values of foreign cultures in this subtle way.