{"title":"ZHU HONG","description":"\u003cp\u003eZhu Hong (born 1975, Shanghai, China) is a visual artist based in France, working primarily across drawing, painting, and expanded pictorial installations. She lives and works in the Nantes region, where she has developed a sustained practice centred on perception, light, and the instability of images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe studied at the Shanghai University Institute of Fine Arts (1993–1997), where she received her foundational training in painting. After relocating to France, she completed the Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique (DNSEP) with honours at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon (2004–2007), further refining her practice in oil painting and drawing. Zhu Hong’s work has been widely exhibited in France and internationally, including at the Musée d’arts de Nantes, the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Dijon and La Roche-sur-Yon, the Centre d’Art de Pontmain, the Musée Ziem, the Château du Grand Jardin, and The Merchant House (Amsterdam). She has participated in residencies at institutions such as Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), the Pôle international de la Préhistoire (Les Eyzies), and Schloss Balmoral (Germany).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer practice is grounded in drawing and painting as a means of exploring perception and the construction of images. She is particularly interested in the relationship between representation, temporality, and immateriality, often working with processes that introduce delay, uncertainty, and transformation into the act of seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA central axis of her work is the representation of water and light. Using highly diluted Chinese ink, coloured pencils, oil paint, and photographic sources, she constructs images that emerge through layering, repetition, and controlled instability. Chance plays a structural role in her process—particularly through water stains, optical disruptions, and transfers between media—which are then reworked through drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer visual language often oscillates between figuration and abstraction, where forms appear and dissolve within atmospheric fields of colour and light. Rather than describing a fixed subject, her works stage the process of emergence itself, focusing on how images come into being and how they are perceived over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKey projects include Bulles d’Erdre (2021), a large-scale installation of mirrored glass elements commissioned under the French “1% artistique” programme for the Collège Isabelle Autissier in Nort-sur-Erdre. The work translates riverine light phenomena into spatial composition, extending her painterly concerns into architectural space. Zhu Hong’s practice consistently proposes a slowed and contemplative experience of looking, where perception becomes unstable and the image is understood as a shifting, temporal event rather than a fixed representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003ePortrait Photo Credits: Marie Gruel and Patrick Garçon\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/4376\/7462\/collections\/01_PORTRAIT.jpg?v=1780927364","url":"https:\/\/booroomgallery.com\/collections\/zhu-hong.oembed","provider":"Booroom Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}