Noni Zhang

Noni Zhangz–eight years after she bid farewell to bipolar disorder, she still yearn for a certain feverishness: "Run! Mellors", written by Osamu Dazai, the embodiment of Mellors constantly running under a burning sun and the image of "Quafoo chasing after the sun" in Chinese mythology are fatally romantic to her. The world is empty, the real world may be an illusion from the collision of the "immaterial". As Buddhists use “Sumeru Mountain" to visualize the Buddhist view of the universe, Noni uses a series of “New Landscapes" to represent her view of the universe: disembodied, disordered, no personality–human, animal, and plant–are all one.

Noni Zhang extracted a large number of strokes from ancient Chinese paintings and turned them into digital brushes to paint. Finally, she applied these digital Landscapes as the materials/textures to digital model, which was made by the Cinema4D program, and exported the animation work “New Landscape NO.0.”

Education:

BA：Central Saint Martins–fine art

MA: Royal College of Art–painting

Exhibitions (selected):

11/05/2022: Absent Traces, London Craft Week. London, UK.

12/02/2022: Anren Biennale, a digital artists residency. Anren, CHN.

15/05/2020: Wework & Art Revolver, Shanghai, CHN.

21/01/2019: Tate Exchange–Moving Image. London, UK.

02/03/2018: "Femme Creator 2018" In Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

24/02/2017: Hybrid Art Fair & Festival–Madrid Art Week. Madrid, Spain.

I got involved in painting from childhood, initially from Chinese traditional ink painting and calligraphy practice, as is apparent, these techniques are still widely used in my current works. I also majored in Buddhism and Chinese literature, I have gotten used to converting the content of my novels to art works and use these as my source material. And Buddhism determines a formalism in my art creations. I believe that the essence of things is empty, thus, there is no permanent material in the world and there is no single event in the world. Everything is changing all the time. What I am trying to present are the scenes of such an empty world.