LandE scape
Jing Zhou
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
and tranquil connection in a public environment. The art in public space occupies a unique position within the art world and is often less appreciated. I think that the importance of public art is in building a sense of community, which includes international communities.
Elements from environment are particularly recurrent in your imagery and they never plays the role of a mere background. Do you see a definite relationship between environment and your work?
For the“ Dimensions of Light” series, my answer to this question is“ yes.” This series of images blend the background and the foreground, the lightness and the shadows, and the negative space and the positive space. The intriguing part of this project is to discover and interact with these pairs of opposites in unpredictable ways.
Childhood and Adolescence show a successful attempt to translate the flow of memory into images marked out with a rigorous geometry that provide them with such a tactive feature. What is the role of memory in your work? We are particularly interested in how you consider the nature memory and its evokative role in showing an alternative way to escape and overcome the recurrent reality, or if you are rather interested to question its elusive nature on a theoretical aspect.
Good question. Often times the remnant of the past evokes emotional storms … As the