Ye Zeng

About

Ye Zeng is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work focuses on the psychology of personal identity consciousness, feminism, and intimacy. She values expressing what she observes in the form of art and conveying her understanding of things through photography.

In the current stage of her work, she tries to touch on the boundaries and dimensions between different identities and present the intuitive feelings and inner reality of fluid identities based on her research on social issues. She is obsessed with presenting work in a three-dimensional representation, thinking deeply about cultural symbols, immigrant history, and her role as a visual artist, exploring and finding ways to represent these complex ideas.

Her recent project explores the phenomenon of ‘face culture’ in the Chinese social structure, taking the family as the starting point, and through the family images, she draw out the hidden order behind it the ‘differential mode of association’. She uses dominoes to reconstruct family identities and relationships, challenging and dismantling the concept by pushing it down. The project reveals that the face is not only a physical indicator but also a symbol of social significance with qualities of social status or prestige. Ice cubes are used as a vehicle for visual expression, triggering the viewer’s visual sense of touch. The process from freezing to melting creates a fuzzy fading, time-delaying effect. It invites the viewer to examine the primitive face, desire, subconscious, and physiological mechanisms from a new perspective.