
Yanzi Zou
"Yanzi Zou is a multidisciplinary artist based between the UK and China. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, her practice spans moving image, performance, and installation, and her work has been exhibited in the UK and across Europe.
Zou’s research investigates the complex entanglement between surveillance, privacy, digital manipulation, and societies of control, while observing how these forces shape and evolve human behavior. She is fascinated by the recurring presence of “invisible” elements in everyday life, and incorporates them into her work through symbolic strategies and dark humor. Her projects rarely offer fixed narratives; instead, they create mediated environments that encourage open-ended interpretation and non-didactic engagement, prompting reflection on contemporary systems of power."
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Brand New World, Single-channel video/Multi channel video installation, Moving Imgae, 2024
"Brand New World explores the pervasive presence of control in contemporary society. Created in collaboration with contemporary dancer Shiyi Wei, the project draws on movement and spatial rhythm to reflect on how control reveals itself through states of oscillation—between awareness and unawareness, clarity and confusion. Presented in two parts, this moving image work guides the audience through a shifting experience between “today” and “tomorrow,” as alternating images unfold across the screens. The subtle act of turning one’s head makes the audience part of the choreography—an unconscious response to invisible forms of control.
Through performance, spatial metaphor, and dark humor, Brand New World invites reflection on how power structures gradually slip from visibility, only to reappear through contemporary art, bodily autonomy, and elite education. In this way, it gestures toward a transformation already underway—into an imperceptible system, a brand new world in which everyone is immersed."

Brand New World, Single-channel video/Multi channel video installation, Moving Imgae, 2024

Brand New World, Single-channel video/Multi channel video installation, Moving Imgae, 2024

Brand New World, Single-channel video/Multi channel video installation, Moving Imgae, 2024
