Dino Zhang

Dino Zhang is an artist based in London and Shanghai. Shifting across mediums, his works examine the complexity of Chinese history, culture and contemporary society. By reimagining alternative narrations of historical events, Dino obsesses with building up a personal connection with historical characters. In a research-led practice, he looks for a myriad of insights into the linear but bifurcated entanglement between the memory of the past and the subject gazing into history. Mostly working with sculpture and film making, the artist introduces his methodology of reactivating historical events by deconstructing the meaning of identity in modern-day China. 

In his recent short film, Upon that River, Dino probes into the hidden past of his family in the last century. By examining a photo album and revisiting the sites where these photos were taken, the film reveals a story of regional migration in China. With the act of gazing at historical images, the artist interrogates the intimate relationship between the subjecting who is looking and the one being looked at.

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