MENG ZHANG (CN/SA)

Meng Zhang is an emerging artist, born in Inner Mongolia, China and she start a study journey in Adelaide from 2010. She is an observer and recorder, using different ways to record what she has observed in daily life. She is fascinated by recording the unexpected, unintended and something said by the material. To observe, to record, to reflect, to consider retrospectively and then to save the unintended and improvised, to save voice from materials and to save the details of daily life. Meng involves broad-ranging practice in printmaking, photography, video, drawing, sculptural and installation. 

Meng Zhang enjoy manual techniques and inaccurate casting process. Zhang use casting process to bring the unsee space into solid, to record the unintended details from the material, to discover the connection between objects and surrounding.  Her recent work inspired by anthropologist Biao Xiang, the idea of disappearing of nearby, to rebuilt and to rediscover the nearby by recording and redirecting the attention back to the vicinity.