Robert Zhao
For our new landing page, Robert Zhao hooked us up with one of his winning pieces for this year’s UOB painting of the year competition.
Robert’s photographs examine the curiosity and increasing disconnection that exists between humans and the natural world. His work explores simulation, spectacle, and reconstruction. His practice looks at points of intersection with animals in our human-made world—our coexistence—and explores notions of their spectacle and the reality of loss through mediation and the continued scientific archiving of animals into an objectified form.
The Blind is a series of images documenting a camouflage cloak produced by the Institute of Critical Zoologists for zoologists and nature photographers to observe nature. This series of images provides a peculiar image of man’s attempt to try to be one with nature. What is his relation to the landscape he surveys? Is he a seamless part of the landscape or still an external observer?
if you’re quick, you can still see his print at the esplanade(until 2 aug)!
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