2022-Joanna Gallery

UK/伦敦

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This year, I concentrated on using multidisciplinary textiles-based approach to increase Self-Awareness and healing in minor mental health.

1.2m*3m

canvas, watercolor, charcoal, oil stick, acrylic

2022

I can't sleep with fights reverberating in my mind, maybe I need more space in this relationship. I saw the red and black color around the house, dancing to loud music, the color sticking to my limbs. I forget who I am, why I am here, I didn’t feel safe at this moment.

<home> 1.2m*2m

Oil on canvas, acrylic, glue, wool, wood

2022

Where is home? Who once owned this item? I'm walking through the streets of London right now, picking up a few balls of red wool from a curbside recycling bin. What is its relationship to me? cutting apart and rejoining the canvas I previously painted. I miss you so much, I lost myself, where am I?

<body> 1.2m*4.3m*0.2m

Masks, plastic bottles, wool, old clothes, plastic tubes, canvases, markers, etc.

2022

I feel safer when I am collecting a lot of rubbish, hand-weaving diverse materials, and feeling the therapeutic effect of varied touches on my emotions.

<light>,1.5m*0.6m*0.3m

waste yarn, toys， plastic tubes

2022

A friend gave me an expensive lamp, I covered it in abandoned yarn and hand-weave toys, but the top-heaviness caused an inability to balance, the same as my life.

<homeless> 1.8m*1.8m*0.3m

plastic hose, wool, leaves, twigs, plastic bottles, orange peels

2022

I feel safer when I am collecting a lot of rubbish, hand-weaving diverse materials, and feeling the therapeutic effect of varied touches on my emotions. I put this installation on the streets of London, and different people responded in multiple ways. The triangle represents a warning, reminding me to stop and ponder thoroughly.

<angle>,1.52m*1.22m

Acrylic, fabric, rice glue, plastic, wool

I met a woman who was like an angle...

<the box>1.5m*2.1m

Canvas, Acrylic, Ink, Oil Stick

2022

I saw that the children were asked by the teacher to color within the prescribed pattern and not to paint the colors out of the edges, so the children did their best to color in the grid... Why can't you paint out of the grid? Why sky bust be bule? Will we live in a fixed box when we grow up? What is a box? What is myself? Who am I? How to step out of the box?

<dairy>1.5m*2.3m

Canvas，Acrylic，Ink

2022

This moment will never be repeated again, journaling in an artistic way is what I have been insisting on, writing repeatedly every day on the canvas: "There is a brown seagull in front of the window, at this moment I want to eat fried rice noodles, I had a deep communication today, my throat hurts, etc... " I hope more people will live in the present moment.

1.2m*3m

plastic board, canvas, oil stick, rice glue, ink, charcoal

2022

The fast-paced life of everything makes more and more people suffer from mental illness or even lose themselves. In order for a family member suffering from mental illness not to forget who he is, we constantly teach him to write his name, which is given to each person at birth. In China, names are related to destiny, and each Chinese character corresponds to a different element in the universe. Find out who I am in the constant process of writing my name. Why am I here? What is the meaning of my presence in the universe?

<Universe> 4m*6m

calico, Acrylic, canvas, wool

2022

hand-sewing giant calico fabrics in a public park, naturally attracting crowds to participate. The restriction is "write Chinese" or "Chinese name," so even if the majority of the participants have an English background or don't know Chinese at all, they are free to imagine what they think is Chinese, even if it is a drawing or not Chinese at all. What are they names in Chinese? Why? Because this is how Hieroglyphic evolved from pictorial characters. So, what appears to be a restrictive condition is actually liberating; anyone can make up words or their own name, demonstrating how self-consciousness can be expressed within simple constraints.

1m*4m, canvas, ink

2022

<I/Me> adjustable size,

calico, link

2022

This soft sculpture is created using handwritten calico. Exploring the inner world through names is the main objective. The idea came from a mentally ill family member who was encouraged to repeatedly write his name to avoid him forgetting who he is. Everyone has a name at birth and it is connected to the universe, identity, personality, and future. Chinese name-splitting and writing with a brush and ink are similar to meditation, leading to the development of your world and raising self-awareness. 赵ZHAO is my family name, 寅YIN means tiger (2022) and advancing, and 希XI means admiration and hope. The structure of the separate name is very interesting: 土 means ground 止 means hold 走 means go or leave X means NO；宀 means home or shelter 田 means ground or farm 八 means the number 8 in luck; X again stands for NO, 布 means textiles and clothes 巾 "means towel or fabric. Repeatedly writing names in the process of meditation and finding myself, knowing who I am from the names.

, 1.22m*1.5m

carbon Rods

2022

In the winter, it gets dark at about 4:00 p.m. in London, and the wet season is a little cold. Sitting by the window, I named the seagull that visited every day Sesame, thinking it was a friend from a previous life.

, 1.85m*1.5m

carbon Rods

2022

, 2m*1.5m

carbon Rods

2022

, 1.2m*1.5m

carbon Rods

2022

, 1.25m*1.5m

carbon Rods

2022

1.4m*0.75m

oil painting stick, canvas

2022

The first painting when I went into the new apartment, there was nothing to say but felt relieved that I no longer had to live on the street.

1.5m*4m

Acrylics

2022

<the universe> 90cm*65cm

Acrylic, gouache, ink

2022

What is the universe? There is a sensation of leaping, fragmentation, and adhesion throughout the entire composition, with an unmistakable decentralized character. once thought to be non-linear and ambiguous, such works are understood to be irregular and epileptic when wild. in contrast, regular and frank works exhibit obsessive psychological traits while being influenced by enormous cultural symbols. the whole is unstructured and skips the art historical narrative.