Artist_Statement | Zhou HanShun | Artist & Photographer
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The interrelationship between beliefs, culture, memory, and the lands and spaces we inhabit lies at the heart of my artistic inquiry. Through photography, I explore how the act of seeing reveals what is not immediately visible—the imagined, the mythic, the remembered, the forgotten. My work approaches photography as a dialogue with place, its culture, and its inhabitants, shifting my gaze between respect and inquiry, familiarity and distance. In essence, it is as much about my way of seeing as it is about what is seen.

 

My practice also explores the intersections of memory, space, and absence, using photography to investigate the ephemeral nature of human presence. Through a minimalist aesthetic and an acute awareness of light and form, I construct visual narratives that blur the line between reality and fiction, inviting viewers into liminal spaces where time feels suspended.

 

Influenced by documentary traditions yet grounded in conceptual exploration, my images evoke solitude and introspection. I am drawn to silent tensions within urban landscapes, forgotten spaces, and fleeting moments of stillness—where absence becomes its own presence. Through these traces and fragments, I seek to offer open-ended, poetic narratives that invite viewers to look, imagine, and interpret for themselves.

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