The artwork depicts a contemporary design object, a minimalist slipper or shoe in a muted grey color. The overall composition is simple and geometric, with a smooth, rounded silhouette that accentuates the textured, knitted-like surface. The use of a monochromatic palette and the emphasis on material and form suggest a focus on functionality and a pared-down aesthetic. This piece likely reflects the artist's interest in exploring the intersection of utility and art, challenging the traditional boundaries between everyday objects and fine art. ...
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. ...
