'The greatest tool in painting is colour, because colour has the greatest way of manipulating perspective.'
Louise Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the fluidity of identity, weaving together cultural narratives, and aesthetics.
Zhang's work is inspired by Chinese mythology, botany, and connection, adopting and placing symbols and motifs in compositions of harmonic dissonance. Her practice explores Chinese mythology and how it contrasts against more Western sentiments, using recognisable cultural imagery to further explore the breadth of her identity. Speaking to a greater cultural shift, her paintings and sculptures create a visual harmony by pulling from disjointed symbols, architecture, fruits and flowers that distort our sense of place.
Materially, her practice is highly considered, paying great attention to her choices in paint, she utilises the historical and instinctive associations of colour to create visual dichotomies from her subjects. In the sweeping visual landscapes of her work, the textural consideration of her paint creates windows into another world, some elements of her works are within our grasp and others remain deeper within. As a deconstruction of the world around her, she weaves together symbols from reality and memory, transforming them into something more lucid and surreal, documenting identity in the process of its own making.