Based in Chongqing, b.1996

Zhang specializes in the traditional medium of colored ink on silk. Her work constructs a poetic space where emotional experience, the perception of the female body, and spiritual imagery intertwine through a highly symbolic visual language. Utilizing the fragile and delicate qualities of silk, she explores themes of vulnerability and resilience.

Zhang is adept at layering multiple semantic threads within her compositions. Through the construction of semiotic and psychological spaces, she guides viewers into an aesthetic experience that navigates choice and fate, reality and illusion, presence and disappearance. Recurring motifs such as lace, roses, and silkworm moths form a metaphorical system of entrapment and constraint, while elements like rainbow-hued “candies” and winding vines hint at latent vitality and hope amidst adversity.