survey_13 — Born in the 90s
1. Zhang Zipiao — 张子飘 (b. 1993, Beijing)
Painting about flesh: meat, fruit and flowers painted with a broad brush and an almost sensuous touch.
- Still life as body— cut meat, fruit and flowers in a single frame: food and flesh are indistinguishable.
- Broad brushstroke — dense, fluid painting in which form is assembled out of the movement of the brush.
- Shift of scale — from small canvases to large compositions in which the object grows to the size of a figure.
2. Tong Kunniao — 童昆鸟 (b. 1990, Changsha, Hunan)
Graduated from: Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Kinetic assemblages of the readymade: things that spin, sway and hold their balance on the edge of falling.
- The readymade as material — mass-produced goods, waste and toys assembled into moving objects.
- “Hooligan” humour — logic and absurdity as a working device: a thing does what it was not made to do.
- Balance — a fragile construction in which the whole sculpture hangs on equilibrium.
3. Hu Weiyi — 胡为一 (b. 1990, Shanghai)
Graduated from: China Academy of Art, 2013
Media about body and light: photography, video and objects on the edge of the image.
- Light and trace — series in which photographed objects turn into abstract stains and bands.
- A dialogue with media art — the son of the artist Hu Jieming, working with the same material otherwise.
- “Crossing Borders” (越界) — solo projects of 2015 and 2018 that brought together photography, video, object and sound.
4. Li Shuang — 李爽 (b. 1990, Wuyishan, Fujian; Berlin and Geneva)
The network as environment: websites, videos and installations about how images and things travel between countries.
- Digital landscape — works about what the picture of the world is assembled from today: screens, logistics, parcels.
- The website as a work — internet projects that exist only in the browser.
- Installation and performance — the same themes in physical space.
5. Liu Wa — 刘娃 (b. 1994; New York)
Between anthropology and VR: video, painting and interactive environments.
- Anthropology as method — her education at Yale joined art and the social sciences.
- VR and interactive installation — the viewer becomes a participant rather than an observer.
- Video and painting — both lines run in parallel, feeding each other.
6. Zhang Yibei — 张移北 (b. 1992, Daqing, Heilongjiang)
Sculpture out of the industrial: metal, fasteners and forms that resemble machine parts.
- Industrial material — steel, pipes and fasteners as the basis of volume.
- The organic out of the mechanical — forms read both as a body and as a component.
- Education in London — an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
7. Wang Ziquan — 王梓全 (b. 1993; lives in Shanghai)
Graduated from: Central Academy of Fine Arts (BA 2017); then Royal College of Art, London (MA 2019), 2017
The computer image as material: 3D, rendering and the digital landscape.
- 3D and rendering — images assembled in software and polished to a gloss.
- The reverse of the picture — the artist shows not the finished frame but its working layer: grid, polygons, interface.
- Education — sculpture at CAFA (2017) and an MA at the Royal College of Art.
