Zhou Liang
Liang Zhou is an artistic creator with Chinese cultural background, and printmaking is her main creative method. In her works, she always uses Chinese text to explorethe universality of culture and the possibility of text as artistic creation, and uses textas a vehicle for psychological interactions with people to understand cognitive reflection.
Project Statement：
My research is mainly about explore the expression form of text in art from three aspects: sound, shape and semantics, especially Chinese text. In my research topic,I have tried to create text symbols with symbolic meanings and integrate thetext into the image. The image is readable for both screen and analogue. Also, I havetride tobreak the original semantics of the text and use the form of the text as part of my creation. I break up the text not only to exploit and break up the ideographic nature of the text, but also to challenge the reading habits of the audience. Based on this, I will mainly focus on the use of Chinese characters in the work. I choose text as a design element because printmaking has long been used to print characters in China, and these characters are based on pictograms. Pictograms refer to the pure use of graphics for the use of words, and these words are very similar in form to the things they represent. That is, some Chinese characters have symbolic features themselves.
