Zhi Wei was born in 1997 in Beijing, China. They currently live and work in Shanghai. They completed their BFA degree from the Ruskin School of Art,University of Oxford, in 2019. Fascinated by the serendipity of meanings fermented in the auteur's careful assemblage of heterogeneous elements, they draw inspiration from fragments of mundanity, popular culture, art history, scientific trivia, fable, etc. Working with lived experience and external references through translated imageries and textile-based materials, Zhi Wei explores the entangled interdependence among the image-making, the act of painting, and the surface, and toes the line between object and image, concealment and exposure, materiality and phantasy, through which the tension between superficiality and sincerity is interrogated on both formal and emotional levels.
