The image depicts a close-up view of a single, dark gray sock. The sock is made of a textured, knitted fabric with a distinct pattern that creates a sense of depth and dimensionality. The overall composition is simple, with the sock occupying the central focus against a plain white background. The style and technique employed suggest a minimalist, utilitarian aesthetic, highlighting the inherent beauty of a mundane, everyday object. This artwork may be intended to challenge the viewer's perception of the ordinary and draw attention to the subtle nuances and design elements found in common household items. ...
Stella Zhong’s practice engages built environments, cryptic objects, and precisely enacted events to express an urgency for nonconformity. With a naughty approach to astrophysics and anthropology, Zhong builds worlds as propositions. She creates models radically scaled to make space for logic to deviate and models that simulate alternative modes of power, knowledge creation, and empathy. Zhong is invested in dislocating the human-centric perspective. By bringing together the unlikeliest objects within incongruent spatial relationships, her work navigates the gap between dissociation and transformation, reassessing notions of belonging and anonymity. ...
MOU PROJECTS (formerly known as MINE PROJECT) is a Hong Kong-based contemporary art gallery established in 2019. Since its inception, the gallery has been dedicated to showcase both local and international emerging artists working in all media and has held many of their first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong as well as in Asia. With an aim to facilitate artistic dialogues and conceptual innovations, the gallery supports artists whose experimental practices and boundary-pushing ethos reflect the current social reality and manifest an alternative contemporary aesthetics. ...
