Chaoming Zheng

Chaoming Zheng (Sadie) is a printmaker, painter, and multidisciplinary artist working with performance, sculpture, moving image, and text. She often uses copper or brass items, old toys, or fragments of domestic architecture to process cleaning, repetition, inscription, and resistance during becoming.

Her practice explores the affective residues of displacement, bodily failure, and unarchived histories, drawing from personal and collective diasporic conditions. Chaoming acts as a shapeshifting bard, or a slippery fox, playing with make-belief to glitch histories with storytelling. Deformed rocking horses, ambiguous figures, and shattered homes appear as unstable forms of care, or small disruptions to what is taken for granted.

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