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 enormous (onsite) labor and extensive collaboration. Her work discusses the ontology and materiality of image, the subjects and perspectives of looking, the metaphysics of visual transformation and its socio-historical implications. In recent years, Leah has been making work about extraction and alchemy both as a subject and as a thought process.
Leah is a resident artist at de Ateliers. She currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

zzixuan811@gmail.com



list of works:
Constellations
In Emptiness there is no Form
BEELD
YUANDAN, 2022
Fossil Morphology
Absolute Purity
The Future Semiotics of A.S.M.R.
I was Born in a Company
Truthful Imaginary
Eyes in Mountains
zzixuan811@gmail.com
+31 647292780

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. Her work discusses the ontology and materiality of image, the subjects and perspectives of looking, the metaphysics of visual transformation and its socio-historical implications. In recent years, Leah has been making work about extraction and alchemy both as a subject and as a thought process.

Leah currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.




I was Born in a Company
Photography
variable sizes

In this work, Leah Zhang goes back to her hometown, a former state-owned company town in China that has been radically dealing with changes such as the market economy and urbanization since 20 years ago. She captures the scenes and landscapes that have remained unchanged to her since she was a child, which were also the realm where politics, violence and industry consistently haunts people’s everyday life.

installation view, 2023
Breathing Underneath, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China

installation view, 2024
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China