About the Artist
HE Zike was born in Guiyang, 1990, and lives and works in Beijing. Her works focus on personal perception and individual's fate under flows of information, and the uncertainty of narrative and meaning, with recent projects exploring patterns, visons and imagination over digital and consumer life, around specific databases, material libraries and memory, as well as their physical and temporal extension. Most of her works are in forms of video, writing, installation and computer program etc.
She graduated from the department of Future Media Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts with master degree in 2018, and studied media art in Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany, in 2017. In 2012, she graduated from Communication University of China with bachelor degree in Digital Film Making. She also attended residency program of Pink Factory in Korea, 2019. Her works exhibited at Hic sunt leones (798 Art Center, Beijing, Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2019), Lying Sophia & Mocking Alexa (HYUNDAI motorstudio Beijing, 2019, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, 2020), Gender Travel (Hongcheon Musuem, Korea, 2019), Sichtbarkeit (Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany, 2017), Moments and More, Documents of Culture Pavilion Wen Hua Guan Online Project (OCAT, Shanghai, 2017), Why the Performance? (Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), Are You Normal? (Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2016).
Other Work
Download Life
Video, interactive platform, digital print
2018 - 2021
Download Life is an ongoing project that is developed loosely, including a series of works in forms of video, interactive program and digital prints. It revolves around large-scale model sharing repositories that expanding with the development of cloud storage and infrastructure, and the manifestation of "building" or "making" as a method of human intervention to the world in everyday life. In this series of independent and interconnected works, the model repositories become containers for individual or collective memories, and the models produced and shared by users shift into fictional scenes of everyday life and heterochromatic stories, which present scenes in an apartment during a day, depicting a time when people have mutated into objects. At the same time, at different ports of the world, those digital creations are carrying knowledge, styles, and ideas about modern life, which are rapidly spreading through the Internet with under-rendered images and superficial structures, and finally re-pouring to reality.
Technical support: Xiang Weihao
One day in eternity, Video 1′ 35′′, 2020. Courtesy the Artist
Gift, Interactive platform, 2018. Courtesy the Artist
2:32 p.m. June 21, 2020, Solar Eclipse with eSpa Digital Printing, 2020. Courtesy the Artist
Control Room, 2020, Digital Printing. Courtesy the Artist
12:36 p.m. 22 Aug 2018, I haven't had my breakfast, Digital Printing, 2018. Courtesy the Artist
Palm tree at 2 p.m. on the afternoon of September 22, 2018, Digital Printing, 2018. Courtesy the Artist
