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Architecture
Cityscapes
Conceptual
Culture
Environmental
Fashion and Beauty
Fine Art
Landscapes
Nature
Nudes
People
Photojournalism
Photomanipulation
Portrait
Sports
Still Life
Street
Travel
Wildlife and Animals
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Other Rooms
Xuemeng Zhang, United States
Other Rooms
DESCRIPTION
Other Rooms is a photographic project on the reconstruction of mental spaces. I imagine mental space as a reflective yet imaginative place located in one's mind, where distressing emotional experiences coexist with the present awareness of a different, if not necessarily more pleasant, state of mind. Using photographs as raw material, I build and digitally rearrange images in geometrical and sometimes irregular shapes to visualize the structuring of reorganized mental spaces.

The displacement of images reflects how visual information is stored and merges over time. I use shape outlines as entrances and borders in imagined landscapes where opposites coexist and ambiguity is the norm. This project lies at the intersection of perceived reality and built spaces. Each shaped image is a container of emotions, concerns, perceptions, and fantasies. The work questions how mental spaces form and function, and how idiosyncratic perception influences and shapes how we make sense of the world.
AUTHOR
Xuemeng Zhang is a visual artist whose practice is driven by exploring connections between the mind and the eye. Her work navigates between identity and culture, alienation and belonging, and apprehension and mindfulness. Zhang was born in Beijing, and currently lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA in Psychology and Studio Art from Clark University and an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, where she was awarded the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement. Her work has been exhibited in multiple group exhibitions in the United States and East Asia.
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