The process of creating art for Zhi Qiu is like looking around her through a speculum, which limits and dis-torts what she can see, and then her hand tries to record what she see. She focus on animals in the form of paintings, and it is easy to create a distorted world on the canvas. However, the space in which we live in reality also has a huge impact, and sculpture becomes an extension of the canvas world, completing the overall expression.
The theme of her work focuses on animals, which stems from the longest running fears and loves of her current life. Animals have bodies that are different from human bodies and minds, but in some of their behaviors they refect the commonality of all living things. The simplicity and frankness with which ani-mals express their emotions is sometimes inferior to that of humans. This is where her love comes from. Fear, however, comes from a religious worldview of “what might become of them”. Because the animal's desire is equally direct, hostility and hunger is to tear apart and devour its prey. To be in an animal's body is not far from a description of hell. The strong am-bivalence that animals evoke, and the 'purity' of their triggers, ft the 'clarity' that she want her work to have.”
Educations:
2021 - MA, Fine Art, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Exhibitions:
2024 Beak and Coal(Dual Exbition), Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai
2023 CFA sculpture class gallery exhibit, Carnegie Mellon, US
2022 CFA Finals Exhibition, Carnegie Mellon, US
Experiences:
2024 Huaniao Collection, B1OCK CONCEPT STORE, CN