Shiqi Zhang

Photography (MA)
A photographic artwork by Shiqi Zhang, featuring layered exposures and intentional blurring. The image dissolves boundaries between reality and illusion, evoking the translucent quality of film negatives. Ghostly, multifocal textures suggest fragmented memory or dream states.
Multiple exposure forest
Multiple exposure forest
As the Deer Pants for Streams of Water
Multiple exposure forest
Multiple exposure forest
As the Deer Pants for Streams of Water
Multiple exposure forest
Multiple exposure forest
As the Deer Pants for Streams of Water
Light and shadow in the mist
Light and shadow in the mist
Imperceptible Sphere
Multiple exposure forest
Multiple exposure forest
Multiple exposure forest
Light and shadow in the mist

About

Shiqi Zhang (b. 2002, Guangzhou) works across photography, moving image, and installation art. Her practice explores the boundaries and essence of photography, rethinking its position in contemporary art through personalized emotional frameworks.

Zhang’s works navigate perceptual fissures, unfolding in the ambiguous zone between reality and illusion. She treats the transparency of film negatives as a metaphor for photography’s ontology, employing superimposition and blurring to deconstruct singular viewing modes—returning the medium to its original state: translucent and indeterminate.

When precise focus dissolves, images reveal their spectral nature: neither fully present nor absent, simultaneously elusive and omnipresent. These multifocal compositions resist explicit narrative or emotional directives, resembling the superposition of memories or the wavering focus of dreams. Such indescribable experiences articulate photography’s most precious quality: it does not explain the world, but opens a chaotic yet fertile void for the viewer.

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