Conceptual performance / performance-based printmaking
Media Dimensions: 300 x 39 cm
Image Dimensions: 300 x 38 cm
Unique Work
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Yaxian Zhu is a Chinese artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores the entangled relationships between language, identity, and power. Working primarily with printmaking, sound, performance, and installation, she employs material experimentation and embodied engagement to construct visual and sensory narratives. With a foundation in traditional calligraphy, her work reflects a critical inquiry into how inherited visual systems—particularly those rooted in Chinese cultural and linguistic traditions—can be deconstructed and reimagined within contemporary contexts. She investigates how writing has shifted from a communicative tool to a symbolic structure loaded with gendered, institutional, and ideological codes.
Over time, her practice has evolved from brush-based expression to a more bodily and process-oriented approach, integrating sound, text, and physical gestures as tools of resistance and transformation. By working across mediums and disciplines, she challenges fixed modes of representation and explores the instability and potential of language when filtered through the body. Influenced by feminist thought, she considers writing not only as a visual or linguistic act, but as an intimate and subversive gesture—one that creates space for vulnerability, visibility, and the reclamation of embodied experience.
Conceptual performance / performance-based printmaking
Media Dimensions: 300 x 39 cm
Image Dimensions: 300 x 38 cm
Unique Work
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £300.00.
Yaxian Zhu is a Chinese artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores the entangled relationships between language, identity, and power. Working primarily with printmaking, sound, performance, and installation, she employs material experimentation and embodied engagement to construct visual and sensory narratives. With a foundation in traditional calligraphy, her work reflects a critical inquiry into how inherited visual systems—particularly those rooted in Chinese cultural and linguistic traditions—can be deconstructed and reimagined within contemporary contexts. She investigates how writing has shifted from a communicative tool to a symbolic structure loaded with gendered, institutional, and ideological codes.
Over time, her practice has evolved from brush-based expression to a more bodily and process-oriented approach, integrating sound, text, and physical gestures as tools of resistance and transformation. By working across mediums and disciplines, she challenges fixed modes of representation and explores the instability and potential of language when filtered through the body. Influenced by feminist thought, she considers writing not only as a visual or linguistic act, but as an intimate and subversive gesture—one that creates space for vulnerability, visibility, and the reclamation of embodied experience.
