meng zhou
London
Deeply engaged in the process of artistic creation, the contested notion of metamorphosis and the becoming of oneself within a social environment
As an artist my work addresses issues of ecology, cultural heritage and notions of transition and transformation. Working across media including installation, moving image, painting and sculpture my work examines human responsibilities to the cultural and ecological environment.
Working with found materials, natural curiosities, traditional and more modern media, my work aims to create spaces of contemplation which foreground the human/environmental connections upon which our lived worlds rely. I am interested in borrowing, bricolage and pastiche. The works that I create are composites drawn from a combination of dreamscapes, material culture and myth, always oscillating between figuration and abstraction.
Drawing on mythologies and folklore my work addresses the impacts of ecology, cultural heritage and tradition on modern subjectivities. Shared human heritage and our responsibilities to one another and to the planet are at the heart of the work that I produce. I am interested in drawing out those moments of conversation and of conflict between tradition and modernity which help to illuminate where we are now.
Accident and the unexpected invariably inform the direction of my work. I envisage each interaction with materials as a kind of journey rather than a translation of form and am constantly drawn back to the tactile nature of my materials.
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