Yujia Zhang

About

Yujia Zhang (b.2001) received her undergraduate degree in Jewellery from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and her postgraduate degree in Jewellery and Metals from the Royal College of Art. She is a contemporary jewellery artist. Her works always revolve around cross-cultural, cognitive differences and emotional identity. She specialises in documenting the absent spaces in life that are easily overlooked, and establishing a sense of storytelling and exclusive environments through which she explores the materials and objects involved in creating her work. Her work encourages viewers to consider how implicit culture shapes our experiences and environments.

The theme of her work is Hidden & Exposed. She explores jewellery in three directions: human and society, inside and outside, and optical illusions. The aesthetics of disguise is the starting point for the transition from the natural world to human society. By discovering the inequality between the inner spirit and the outer body of human beings, it leads to the understanding of Hidden & Exposed. Through jewellery, she becomes a vehicle for exploring the inner spiritual world of human beings, using reflection to abstract visual expression. A reflection of self-consciousness through hidden and exposed.