SUPERCROWDS SUPERCOMMUNITY
Zhang Ke
2024.07.20-2024.10.08
TANK Shanghai
The proposal of the “SUPERCROWDS SUPERCOMMUNITY” aims to provide support for the current youth group: to see and understand the efforts and values that each individual contributes to maintaining their identity within the crowd. A space that can accommodate both the intimate and grand emotions of different individuals is being constructed, where the freedom of spiritual connection will become a reality.
Archer’s movement
Oil on canvas
100 × 80 cm
2023
Zhang Ke’s works take “ways of seeing and knowing” as the starting point, disassembling, reconstructing and juxtaposing traditional items, depicting the original texture and characteristics unique to the elements through painting techniques, placing them in contradiction and opposition, making contradictory fragments resonate silently with each other, and expressing personal doubts and beliefs generated by the long-term gaze of daily life.
Tear with jealousy
Oil on canvas
100 × 80 cm
2024
In terms of creating illusions, she is influenced by the stop-motion animation artist Shi Yunmeyer. Imagination and prediction are the conditions for creating illusion, and discernible objects are the hotbeds for the fermentation of illusion. Her paintings show not only how prediction is formed but also the flaws and lies in the prediction formed by existing experience. Cognition is also closer to completeness through doubt.
The trict,and its followers
Oil on canvas
120 × 100 cm
2023
In Zhang Ke’s paintings, plants are often depicted with branches and leaves of no fixed species growing and decaying between objects, partly dead and partly increasing, which is a combination of contradictions and a complete existence, a long-term fixation on one’s plight, and immediate satisfaction with simple happiness. The atmosphere of the picture is quiet and conflicting, composed of dots and light strokes, the boundary between objects is not divided by complete lines, and if a painting points to a particular fact, she will destroy it and bring it back into contradiction again.
SUPERCROWDS SUPERCOMMUNITY Installation View
SUPERCROWDS SUPERCOMMUNITY Installation View
SUPERCROWDS SUPERCOMMUNITY Installation View
