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  • Mingzhu Zhang
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1997 Born in Jinan, Shandong Province

2019 Graduated from the Arts and Crafts Department of Shandong University of Art and Design with a bachelor’s degree

2021 Graduated from the Design Department of Sheffield Hallam University with a master’s degree

Currently works and lives in Beijing

 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2021

Sheffield Hallam University Design Department Exhibition, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

2019

2019 Graduation Exhibition of Shandong University of Art and Design, Shandong University of Art and Design Museum, Jinan, China

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My work usually chooses objects related to the body to express my views on the world and society. Objects are used as a medium to express my thinking, and I feel that 3D objects are the most direct expression of my thinking. I think my work is peaceful and quiet, but also sincere and intense. The works usually express the serious social problems in modern society and certain difficulties encountered in our lives. I have always been expressing my emotions to the world, and my work is a bridge between me and the world.

My installation, The Quantified Power, was inspired by the fact that people in today's society have very strict weight standards for women. In this social situation, the public aesthetic is guided, and the deformed social aesthetic has a profound impact on women. In my opinion, this perverted aesthetic is a state of disrespect. I chose to think about women's strength by using the shoes of women of different ages to represent different women and put them on scales to express different weights and express women's weight in this way. This work arouses people's thinking about the current social deformed aesthetics and strict standards for women and then calls on everyone to respect women's rights.

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