Hefang Zhang
About
Hefang Zhang is an artist from China who explores the intersection of dreams, memory, and reality.
Her practice delves into the fluid and often ambiguous relationship between perception and recollection. Rather than depicting reality as it is, she engages in a process of fragmentation and reconstruction, where fleeting impressions — drawn from personal encounters, literature, films, and dreams — are distilled into layered visual forms. Her paintings are not mere representations but traces of subjective experience, where the boundaries between external observation and internal emotion blur.
Painting becomes both an act of creation and a form of self-discovery for her. The compositions often hold a sense of tension, where various elements come together in unexpected ways — like a moment of high drama frozen in time. These layers of paint reflect not just physical images, but the thoughts and emotions behind them. Through this work, she explores the space between what is real and what is imagined, inviting viewers to experience the shifting, layered nature of memory and perception.
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