Weekend Portfolio: Zhang Yunqi

Bewußt-sein

In Stanislaw Lem's science fiction, there is an exoplanet called Solaris, and the mysterious waters covering the surface of Solaris possess the power to reproduce and reshape the human inner world.

Throughout history, it seems that the space exploration of world are endless desire, because people often assume that a large number of unknown and mysterious items exists in the outer space, but nobody knows whether the human always live in their own memory from the outset, consciousness and illusion in the projection, space exploration may be able to be interpreted as a kind of exploration for human itself since the trans. In such a world, we seem to be enveloped in a pure consciousness -- Bewußt-sein. The philosopher Husserl came up with an idea which is consistent with it, namely, the  objects which can be perceived may not actually exist in the real world, they can exist for perception in the presence of hallucinations, delusions, or eye deception. No matter how real the objects may be, the viewers can still experience them.

The visual research which I did attempts to explore the issues related to hallucinations, dreams, and consciousness. Doubting the boundaries of the relationship between the inner world and the real world, I took a reverse journey to the former internal family and the external world, and then gathered the evidences which floated between the reality and fiction. In this work, the image becomes a substitute of my personal consciousness by projecting the invisible inner world onto the visible outside world.

Graduated from the Photography Art Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2020, Zhang Yunqi is a creator of image media. To view more works, visit her website.