'Human' Nature

Ziqi Chen’s practice is informed by cosmology and existential curiosities reflected in dream experiences. Her creations, a testament to years of dream journaling, unfold liminal space and figurative dreamscapes. Ziqi portrays nocturnal, apocalyptic alternate realities, each capturing a haunting sense of the uncanny that emerges when contemplating urban environments or nature during afterhours. These visions encapsulate the temporal nature of nighttime, oscillating between the mundane and the extraordinary, beckoning a journey beyond reality and the tangible.

By incorporating technological tools, such as AI programmes, to generate reference pictures from dream content, her work invites critical engagement with the evolving relationship between art, technology, and culture in the digital age.

Accolades

Education: University of the Arts London 2020– 2024
                   Royal Drawing School 2019-2020

Recent group exhibition includes A Sense of Place with Ogilvy and A Slash of Blue with Gerald Moore Gallery 2023.