Sine Zheng
Sine Zheng
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Bathtub, 2020
C-print on Fuji May paper
54 x 67 cm
Edition of 8 + 2 AP
£900
90 x 117 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
£1,200
About this work
Wild Dwelling is an ongoing series that began in 2019, and a continuation of Zheng’s interest in the relationship between humans and nature. The project aims to capture the complexities of urbanisation, and highlight how removed we have become from nature. Within our steel and concrete jungles, patches of vegetation act as a simulated illusion of the natural world. The artist cares to make this dysfunctional reality of our ecosystem a cause for concern, thereby raising awareness around our current climate emergency. At the same time, she encourages the viewer to value every moment and place that surrounds them.
About Sine Zheng
Sine Zheng is a photographer based in London. She completed her MA Photography at the Royal College of Art, London. Her works explore the connection between people, nature, urban life and space, which generates an undefined dimension between reality and illusion, and explores whether these concepts can exist independently. Her photographs give no straight answer to her audience, which is instead prompted to have its own interpretation.
Zheng’s form of conceptual photography captures and conveys messages through meticulously arranged and staged scenes. Her work is both playful and experimental, taking elements of documentation and staging, and re-interpreting them in new ways. By consciously placing elements and arranging compositions, be it chicken eggs, tissue boxes or plastic bags, the artist creates events, environments and emotions for the viewer to contemplate.
Education
2018-2020 Royal College of Art, London, MA Photography
2012-2017, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, BFA Fashion Design
Awards and Prizes
2020 New Horizon Young Talents, Excellent Prize
2020 Budapest International Foto Awards, Silver Prize
2020 Life Framer, Animal Kingdom, Shortlisted
2020 ND Photography Award, Honorable Mention
2020 Luminous Frame, Fine Art Photography Category, Winner
2020 Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, Photography Prize Winner
2020 Source Magazine, Selected
2020 'Highly Commended Graduates', Photograd
2020 RA Summer Exhibition, Shortlisted
2020 Fine Art Photography Awards, Shortlisted
2019 China's Village Document, Beijing University
Solo Exhibitions
2020 'Wild Dwelling', Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2021 Infinite Dreams, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine (online)
2021 Redirecting, Tree Art Museum, Beijing
2020 Ying·Ji, Jiushu Museum, Changshu
2020 Time Joint: Rethinking of Existentialism, Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing
2020 Duality, Milan Art & Events Center, Milan
2020 New Horizons Young Talents Exhibition, Coast Gallery, Zhuhai
2020 Dynamic: Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery (online)
2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2020 RCA Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
2020 With fists, it kicks, it bites, Webber Gallery, London
2020 Traia Lab X Pinsharp Magazine Exhibition (online)
2020 Ashurst Emerging Artist Exhibition, London
2020 Photograd Photography Degree Show (online)
2020 Silence, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
2020 Be Water, My Friend, Grapevine (online)
2020 Culture Shock, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2020 Nurture/Nature, Arlington Center for Arts, Massachusetts
2019 Off Print, Tate Modern, London
2019 Hidden Dimension, Coningsby Gallery, London
2019 WIP Show, Royal College of Arts, London
Publications
Source Magazine, New Yorker Photo, Made in Bed Magazine, Asthetica, Magazine,
Photograd, Issue No.7, Fall Into Place, RPS Contemporary Photography,
Black Box Gallery Catalog, RA Magazine, Spotlight Magazine, Musee Magazine