Sophie Ruoyu Zhang
Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist born in 1999, who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Her practice utilizes multiple mediums, oil painting, printmaking, sound and performance, to install her ideas in the same spectrum in order to create interdependent poetic scores. For her raw paints on canvas paintings, figures will be her paints and traces they made, which regarding asemic scores or concrete poetics as a way to represent performatively. Considering the atmosphere of the ground and the both rational and irrational/embodied and disembodied execution of her figures, she usually treats semi-raw materials as a ground- such as coffee, cochineal insects, and wine. Moving to printmaking, “chaotic” moments of her scores/marks that happened in paintings become photographically silence; those prints are documented statically in a ghostly archival sense. To clarify, all such figures, ground, scores, are under the consideration of asemic arts and asemic poetry. Painting and writing, scores and languages, “will have started with the same gesture, one which was neither figurative nor semantic but simply rhythmic.” If asemic scores are considered as tangible and literal rhythms in her paintings, the conversation of those scores is executed sensorily and more interactively in sound pieces and performance.
Available for:
Painting, Printmaking, Installation, Sound art, Performance
