Ying Zheng Chinese
Ying Zheng's practices explored topics like social alienation, consumerism, and human experience. The project Purity of True Feelings explores the pure feelings of humanity and relationships.
In her current artworks, Ying Utilizes the delicate balance between stability and fluidity in ceramics to explore the essence and internal relationship of projection, superego, and conflict in romantic relationships. The works take on an abstract form with a porous structure, symbolizing the virtual changes that occur within our bodies: the untouchable, but real and emotional changes in feelings. The liquid flow from the inside out also expresses the intensity of emotions.
Like each pore of our skin, it overflows with strong emotions. The sculptural forms and porous structures in her works symbolize the individual’s ‘body’, the container of the mind. which carries those unspeakable feelings we have. They contain the“superego”, the moral and social norms. This precious innocence is also filtered and lasting form. The emotions flowing inside squeeze out like liquid through the pore structure and gush to the surface, symbolizing the conflict and the emotional flow within the “superego”.
She uses gloop glaze as a powerful visual language, to express the concept of ‘fossilized emotion’. She uses ceramic sculpture as a medium to record and preserve the complexity of the inner world and psychological processes of the individual by exploring the innocence of feelings and emotional changes in human romantic relationships.
