Leah Zhang 张紫璇 works with film, photography, sound and installation. With a background in film studies, her work is a research practice around image and media. Leah’s work usually involves (onsite) labor and extensive collaboration.
Shaped by her memory of growing up in a mining town in China, Leah’s practice incorporates an inward-looking perspective, just like mining, which digs deeper and deeper into the ground. Inspired by alchemy in mining, Leah’s interest rests in transformation and its ability to shift value and ontology. She is drawn to the unstable passages between forms of being and body, where the cinematic, the poetic, the magical, the chemical, the social, and the personal overlap, rendering moments when representations fail.
Leah Zhang works with film, photography, sound and installation. With a background in film studies, her work is a research practice around image and media. Leah’s work usually involves (onsite) labor and extensive collaboration.
Shaped by her memory of growing up in a mining town in China, Leah’s practice incorporates an inward-looking perspective, just like mining, which digs deeper and deeper into the ground. Inspired by alchemy in mining, Leah’s interest rests in transformation and its ability to shift value and ontology. She is drawn to the unstable passages between forms of being and body, where the cinematic, the poetic, the magical, the chemical, the social, and the personal overlap, rendering moments when representations fail.
Leah currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
All My Friends Are Offline is a video made of screen-captures of Chinese Internet live streamers who leave their cameras on when they go to sleep, usually during 1am to 6am China Standard time.