Recent Projects

Bread Etching Project

2025-2026

Bread has been a recurring material in this practice — chosen for its organic, unstable nature. Pressed into soft-ground zinc plates, it leaves behind traces of its own transformation: the texture of its surface, the evidence of drying, shrinking, and change over time. These works explore what etching can preserve when the material itself is temporary.

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Bread

2025

Bread creates a self-referential paradox using bread as both material object and textual definition. The bread becomes its own ingredient list—simultaneously a material object and a textual definition; simultaneously a tangible substance and an abstract symbol.

Through this work, a fundamental question is explored: What happens when something becomes its own description? Can art exist purely independently without pointing to or depicting any external things?

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Bread is Bread

2025

Bread is Bread employs bread frames and video documentation to explore the relationship between material substances and their imposed meanings. Three bread frames of different sizes, along with their production data, reflect on the over-interpretation and symbolization in artistic creation. The work emphasizes the directness of "what you see is what you get," critiquing contemporary art's tendency to over-interpret materials by returning to bread's material essence, while also pointing to practical issues such as scale, value, and material consumption in artistic creation.

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Edible Frames

2025

Edible Frames employs printing and video techniques to explore and articulate the significance and value of art. The bread-shaped frames symbolize the distinction between need and meaning, as well as the essential role of art in the spiritual life of individuals. The work conveys the idea that art only truly gains significance when people experience spiritual "hunger."

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Inter-interscapes

2024

Inter-interscapes explores the intimate connection between people and environment using cyanotype, sewing, and video. The left-hand-shaped sofa symbolizes the safety and sense of belonging associated with HOME, as well as people's dependence on it. The video and cyanotype objects depict daily life as remembered in my experiences. The work raises a central question: Can I remain in the same space indefinitely?

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Peeling

2024

Peeling delves into the connection between crabs and familial intimacy through cyanotype and video techniques. The crab, symbolizing emotional closeness, is recorded through the peeling process using cyanotype, revealing the complex emotional flow within familial relationships. The piece expresses the complex emotions of both pain and longing present in intimate connections.
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Huling Project

2024

Hanzi spent serveral months conducting on-site creation work in Hulining Town, which is near her hometown of Rui'an City.
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