
(Beijing, China, 1970)
Ji Zhou studied engraving at the Central Academy of Fine Arts of Beijing (1994). Later on, he earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (2005). His work is characterized for being contemplative, formulating questions through diverse photographic techniques that question common ideas around objectivity and photographic certainty.
Through images of urban development, greenhouses, and miniature models that allude to city spaces and undefined landscapes, the artist’s production philosophically expands as a way to rethink relationships between perspective, senses, rationality, and reality. In his “Building” series, for example, the documentary quality of cityscape photography is questioned due to a montage that mixes different times in the same place; the unitary space becomes impossible when considerations of time are introduced.
He currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
Ji Zhou
No. 2 Building No. 2, 2017
Archival Pigment Print
120 x 234 cm
47 10/41 x 92 16/127 in
Edition 2 of 3
Ji Zhou
No. 3 Building No. 3, 2017
Archival Pigment Print
150 x 210 cm
59 1/18 x 82 21/31 in
Edition 2 of 3
Ji Zhou
Greenhouse 1, 2017
Ultra Giclee
120 x 180 x 7 cm
47 10/41 x 70 13/15 x 2 96/127 in
Edition 2 of 3
Ji Zhou
3 Maquette 3, 2014
Ultra Giclee
110 x 177 cm
43 39/127 x 69 37/54 in
Edition 4 of 6
Ji Zhou
4 Maquette 4, 2014
Ultra Giclee
110 x 190 x 7 cm
43 39/127 x 74 49/61 x 2 96/127 in
Edition 4 of 6
Ji Zhou
5 Maquette 5, 2015
Archival Pigment Print
138.50 x 110 cm
54 19/36 x 43 39/127 in
Edition 3 of 6