i Zhou is a young Chinese artist, who has lived in Rome from the age of ten and studied between London and Paris with a degree in Political Science and Economics.
Living between Paris and Shanghai, she creates large multimedia installation artworks that blend film, digital animation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and contemporary music composition. Her works explore the realm of hyper-realism and neo-realism: on one hand, she derives visual and tangible forms from the imagination and dreams, while on the other hand, she gives a surreal aspect to nature itself.
Her work is a complex synthesis of imagination, literature, mythology, philosophy and new technology and is impregnated with Chinese and Mediterranean culture. Her works introduce the disturbing magic of both virtual and supernatural characters and landscapes as well as the ephemeral reality of life, love, and death while using the symbolic language of the unconscious.
Blending ancient expressive methods, such as sculpture in marble and 35mm film, with extremely technologically advanced ones, such as 3D animation, Yi Zhou presents a vision of life, transcending both time and space, inflected with irony and wit.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
1. The work is about the Construction, deconstruction, disintegration, re-creation, transformation and the reification of simultaneous and parallel
worlds.
2. The New worlds are a synthesis of the ancient, the present, the imaginary and the sub-conscious world of dreams
3. The vision that inhabits the work is expressed through the layering of all kinds of media; everyone is subject, from the obscure to the infamous. Its content is both the sum and the detail of human activity.
Yi Zhou has held solo exhibitions at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, and live art performances at Deitch Projects, New York. Many of her video works have also been consecutively selected by Venise Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.
Yi Portrait, by Todd Anthony Tyler. 2010.
www.myspace.com/yi_zhou
www.myspace.cn/yi_zhou
Yi Zhou Studio
Tel : +33 9 54 76 80 05
studio@yi-yo.net
周依是一位年轻的中国艺术家。 她十岁定居罗马, 后在伦敦和巴黎求学并获得政治学和经济学学位。
周依将电影, 数码动画, 摄影, 雕塑, 绘画, 素描和现代音乐融为一体创作大型多媒体装置艺术作品。她的作品是对超现实主义和新现实主义的探索： 从想象和梦境中获取视觉和实体的表现形式的同时，亦赋予自然本身一种超现实的色彩。
周依的作品是想象、文学、神话、哲学和新技术的复杂结合体，且弥漫着中国和地中海文化气息。她的作品酝含了令人不安的魔力，描写虚幻、超自然的角色与地脉，同时以无意识的象征性语言阐释短暂的生命、爱与死亡。
周依的作品通过将大理石雕塑和35mm胶片等古老的表现手法，与3D动画等高科技的表现形式融会贯通, 展现出带有嘲讽和风趣意味的超时空人生观。
周依自述：
1. 我的作品是关於一个即时的平衝世界里之建设、破坏、瓦解、重建、转化及巩固。
2. 新世界都是远古、现在、幻想及潜意识的梦想世界之综合体。
3. 作品视觉阶由重重不同的媒体展示。从模糊到显著的，每一个都是主题，而它的内容同是人文活动的细节与结论。
周依在巴黎的Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont举办过个展，并在纽约的Deitch Projects举办过现场艺术表演。她的很多影片作品都先後入选威尼斯国际电影节及圣得西电影节竞赛环节。
Galerie jérôme de Noirmont
38, avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
Tel : +33 (0)1 42 89 89 00
info@denoirmont.com
Contrasts Gallery
181 Middle Jiangxi Road, B/F
Shanghai, China 200002
Tel : (8621) 6323 1989
info@contrastsgallery.com
Hanart Gallery
202 Henley Building,
5 Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong
Tel : 852 2526 9019
tzchang@hanart.com
Site design :
François Leturcq
Jean Christophe Recchia
Flash design :
Thierry Tranchina
Group exhibitions
2010
"Currents 2010" Currents Video Exhibition, Santa Fe. June 17th -June 27th.
2009
"Vraoum ! Trésors de la bande dessinée et art contemporain" Maison Rouge, Paris. May 28th -September 27th.
"The Big World : Recent Art from China". Chicago Cultural Center. April 25th - August 30th
2008
Guangzhou triennial, Guangdong museum. September 6th- November 16th.
Reperti contemporanei confini. Ventimiglia. October 25th - December 8th.
2007
Fiac 2007. Gallerie Jérôme de Noirmont. "Archetype". Grand Palais, Paris - October 18-22
64th mostra internazionale d'arte cinematrografica di Venezia. "Avatars" film screening. September 6-7th 2007
Verismo Magico, Not Gallery, from 18th September 2007 to 26th October 2007
"Good Morning Babylonia", Pékin. February 2d, 2007
2006
Screening short film for La Mer
White Space, Amsterdam, NL. - 14 Nov
Quarter relocated
Turin, Italy - From 11 Nov. to 15 dec
Musée du Quai Branly, 27th of June 2006
2005
"Biennale d'Art contemporain chinois" Montpellier, France, June - August 2005
"Le futur des villes"
Nancy, France, June - August 2005
"Festival Sonar"
Barcelone, Spain, June 2005
2004
"Fraicheur de vivre"
Shanghai, and Canton Museum of Contemporay art, China, septembre 2004
"Generation Video"
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, January 2004
2003
"Lovemeforeverandnever" in collaboration with the Crazy Horse
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France,November 2003
40Views of an Icon" by Comme des Garçons
Spazio Consolo, Milano, Italy, November 2003
"FIAC 2003: Fantasme Fantastique"
Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris,France, October 2003
"Made in China"
Fondation d'art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain,France, Septmeber 2003
"40Views of an Icon" by Comme des Garçons
Hermitage, Moscow, Russia, September 2003
"Biennale de Tirana 02"
Tirana, Albania, September 2003
"DVDbyNumbers Presentation"
SonyDreamWorld, Paris, France, September 2003
"Something about love"
Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, July 2003
2002
"Premiere Vue"
Passage du Retz, Paris, France, September 2002
"Alter Ego"
Musee de l'Histoire de l'Art, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, July 2002
"www.whitneybiennial.com," online exhibitio, March 2002
Solo exhibitions
2009
Yi Zhou booth by Art Asia / Scope Pavilion at Basel Miami Art Fair. december 1th -4th 2009.
"Around the EarBridge", SuZhou True Color Museum of contemporary art. November 1th 2009 - February 25 th 2010.
2008
“My Heart Laid Bare” Ooi Botos gallery, Hong Kong. From October 30th 2008 to January 10th 2009.
"Hear, Earth, Heart"
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France, April - May 2008
"1280 Towers", with the support of Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont and the initiative of Comité Vendôme.
2007
"Il passato è remoto anzi sarà sempre presente
Una scultura, un video, un anello."
Galleria Nicola Ricci.
Pietrasanta, Italy, May 18 2007
2006
"Three Cantos: Prefiguration: Inferno, urgatorio, Paradiso"
Palazzo Vecchio: Cappella di Eleonora di Toledo, Studiolo di Francesco I, Terrazza di Saturno
Projection and Performance on the Façade of Palazzo Vecchio and Torre Vecchia, Florence, Italy, June 2006
2005
"Dreamscape"
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France, May - June 2005
2004
"Mountaintank" Performance,
Deitch Projects, New York, USA, September 2004
2002
"Y_Game"
Noirmont Prospect, Paris, France, September - November 2002