Zhiyi  CHEN
之一

Zhiyi Chen (b. 1999, China) works with installation, sculpture, writing, video, and photography. 
Most of Zhiyi’s research focuses on the emotional and physical shaping of women in popular culture. She specialises in discovering subtle contradictions in everyday life, creating conflicts and multiple identities in her work, and using the first-person perspective to lead the audience into her worlds. 
In her current research, emerging from her own cultural upbringing, Zhiyi critiques Chinese romantic fiction, exploring the extreme objectification of women hidden beneath its idealised portrayals of love. She consistently employs materials such as braided hair and erotic objects to provoke the male gaze, revealing how Confucian patriarchy and East Asian misogyny have harnessed the narratives of romance in popular culture to construct seductive fantasies that subtly discipline women‘s existence and ways of knowing.

Zhiyi graduated from the MFA Fine Art programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, and holds a BA in Sculpture from the Jilin University of Arts.
Now based in London, UK.
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