https://lianjiangzhu.com/work 2026-02-27T14:25:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2434679206543745930897425462620/Narcissus-in-the-Mirror.jpg Narcissus in the Mirror (2024) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2488568435013061836891484353884/Have-you-received-my-signal.jpg Have you Received my Signal? (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2520470352144169998681358234972/2.jpg Only the Switchable Exists (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2523227631640434767812226217308/1100.jpg At the Origin Lies the Likeness (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2558257522691965360550868972892/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-4.jpg At the Origin Lies the Likeness (2025) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2563681401530465494799252485468/Ephemeral-dualities.jpg Ephemeral Dualities (2024) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2593611138680511510299187377500/Wake-up-in-a-Miracle.jpg Wake up in a Miracle (2023) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2657727188052225343887589537116/Looking-for-Adonis.jpg Looking for Adonis (2023) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2657734741754115854990752118108/Lianjiang-Zhu--The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Moving-image--AI1.jpg The Missed Calls of Dolly (2024) https://lianjiangzhu.com/top-nav-—-mobile 2026-02-27T11:48:30+00:00 always 0.5 https://lianjiangzhu.com/image-nav-—-mobile 2025-08-28T04:33:50+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2327714568856165100151147623772/IMG_0117.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2339717308280830831948896433500/Looking-for-Adonis.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2339719481860685037145363346780/114-12.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2339732624225053607441702614364/Lianjiang-Zhu--The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Moving-image--AI2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2339732624243500351515412165980/Lianjiang-Zhu_Narcissus-in-the-Mirror_01.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2339732624261947095589121717596/You-have-to-give-up-everything-you-have-gained--video.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2339732624188160119294283511132/2024_01_08_19_03_IMG_8140.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2340506327636915397700996068700/Ephemeral-dualities.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2340540263669265943394074785116/Obedience.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/looking-for-adonis-1 2026-01-16T15:42:13+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2272644976472738054282317952348/Lianjiang-Zhu_Looking-for-Adonis.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2272645167820814330871496865116/Looking-for-Adonis-2.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Looking for Adonis (2023) Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 100% cotton Mounted under acrylic (optional) 29.7 x 42 cm </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2275448613079581913302606050652/Looking for Adonis <div style="text-align: left">Looking for Adonis (2023) Single-channel video, wall posters, participatory recording in Shoreditch, London 25 mins 20 seconds Looking for Adonis begins with the artist’s own portrait, which is repeatedly processed, substituted and reproduced until its ethnic markers and traceable identity are stripped away. Under continuous revision by technical systems, the original body is transformed into an encoded “fictional face”. This digitally generated neutrality exposes the latent violence of image technologies within political contexts: bodies are rendered manageable, interchangeable and detached from their circumstances. The work does not depict the act of searching itself; instead, it reveals how, within contemporary conflicts, images are deployed prior to the subjects they claim to represent. The sequence of image generation becomes a form of identity coding, yet this identity is one that can be mobilised, redirected or overwritten by power, technology and media circulation. Second Prize Winner,Kunstverein Hof, Hof, Germany </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2339717796492359486745889502556/Looking-for-Adonis.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2370747591371736372000571290972/poster.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2434528055453885712949376742748/Still-image-55.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2434528137394322888367205021020/Still-image-22.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2434529650193357629213823497564/Still-image-1.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2434530264728189700773826032988/Still-image-4.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2434546810793541031588081726812/13.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2435093245632941725449239950684/Looking-for-Adonis-1--Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2598225839634790305292303496540/Looking-for-Adonis.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Looking for Adonis (2023) Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 100% cotton Mounted under acrylic (optional) 29.7 x 42 cm Collected by Royal College of Art </div> https://lianjiangzhu.com/the-missed-calls-of-dolly 2026-01-16T15:42:14+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2272627160847119338555591390556/Lianjiang-Zhu--The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Moving-image--AI2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2272628560530719419415239357788/Lianjiang-Zhu--The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Moving-image--AI1.jpg <div style="text-align: left"> </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2272628768370184897900757415260/Lianjiang-Zhu--The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Moving-image--AI3.jpg <div style="text-align: left">The Missed Calls of Dolly (2024) Video installation, AI technology, digital print wallpaper, Multi-channel videos Composed of multiple video segments The Missed Calls of Dolly invokes the figure of Dolly the cloned sheep to explore how AI technologies construct subjectivity through unstable acts of replication, interruption and absence. Generated images derived from the artist’s own portrait are produced, broken and reassembled, resulting in a presence that can never be fully reproduced. The work treats the digital body as an endlessly replicated yet perpetually incomplete entity, exposing a prefigured ethical crisis embedded in systems that reproduce without ever guaranteeing wholeness. <a href="https://artprize.aestheticamagazine.com/projects/lianjiang-zhu/" style="line-height: 1; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);" target="_blank">Longlisted Artist, Aesthetica Art Prize, UK</a> FutureTense Awards 3rd Edition, HK–Finalisted Kinomural 2024, Wroclaw, Poland– Shortlisted </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2312440457458621116640286504284/The Missed Calls of Dolly <div style="text-align: left"> </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2383777727298888721619409466716/The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2422303194411950098971455944028/dolly-Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2523282157744052947369723196764/11111.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/wake-up-in-a-miracle-1 2025-11-22T09:34:14+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q962499264641493667830188908211/t13.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2272630041453780400891752641884/Lianjiang-Zhu---Wake-up-in-a-miracle.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2272722179066612324623068722524/114-12.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2327705685402281291621247251804/Wake up in a Miracle <div style="text-align: left">Wake up in a miracle (2023) Single-channel video with sound, moving image, green screen suit 5 mins 48 seconds Wake up in a Miracle is a self-performed video work that constructs a form of “technical illusion” through green-screen intervention and deliberately artificial bodily states. The body appears, suspends and reappears in ways that defy physical logic, while the green screen itself becomes an apparatus of revelation—continually switching the figure between visibility and erasure. What reaches the viewer is a body that is obscured, anonymous and ultimately unidentifiable, accompanied by a fractured and discontinuous voice. By treating the green-screen body as a metaphorical device, the work questions the violent logic underpinning the politics of visibility and the fragile conditions under which a subject becomes seeable—or disappears. </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2491468836174213395971611850076/Wake-up-in-a-miracle.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Wake up in a Miracle (2023) Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 100% cotton 109.5 x 61 cm Edition of 3 + 1AP </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2593593761700020123311888692572/Wake-up-in-a-Miracle.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/have-you-received-my-signal-1 2025-11-22T09:31:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2272720314432827865914172274012/2024_01_08_19_03_IMG_8140.JPG <div style="text-align: left">Have you received my signal? (2025) Single-channel video installation, anodized and sandblasted aluminum frame, electronic components with remote control, USB drive, green screen suit 27.5 x 15 x 6.3 cm Have You Received My Signal? constructs a “double-subject” structure through green-screen bodily performance: the body is simultaneously present yet erased, its movements both real and accompanied by mirrored artefacts that produce a state of spectral embodiment. The image is set within a metal frame resembling both a peephole and a surveillance monitor, establishing a position of covert observation. Within this confined field of view, the viewer is unable to determine whether they are witnessing the body’s actual gestures or the residual traces left by technical intervention. </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2425170533012529746579483293020/Have-you-received-my-signal--Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2488533449637674658230561961308/Have-you-received-my-signal-3.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2488568435013061836891484353884/Have-you-received-my-signal.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Have you received my signal? (2025) Single-channel video installation, anodized and sandblasted aluminum frame, electronic components with remote control, USB drive, green screen suit 27.5 x 15 x 6.3 cm Have You Received My Signal? constructs a “double-subject” structure through green-screen bodily performance: the body is simultaneously present yet erased, its movements both real and accompanied by mirrored artefacts that produce a state of spectral embodiment. The image is set within a metal frame resembling both a peephole and a surveillance monitor, establishing a position of covert observation. Within this confined field of view, the viewer is unable to determine whether they are witnessing the body’s actual gestures or the residual traces left by technical intervention. </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2500956104564775049568597603676/Have you received your signal <div style="text-align: left">Have you received my signal? (2023) Dual-channel projection with sound, moving image, green screen suit 6 mins 48 seconds </div> https://lianjiangzhu.com/only-the-switchable-exists 2026-03-29T05:09:50+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2272720314432827865914172274012/2024_01_08_19_03_IMG_8140.JPG <div style="text-align: left">Only the Switchable Exists (2025) UV-cured ink on anodized aluminum, partially flame-oxidized copper and brass (iridescent surface), black mirror panel 60 x 90 cm, Edition of 1 + 1AP In the context of digital technology, material existence is conditioned by the ability to be switched, rewritten, or replaced. In this work, I employ the transparent checkerboard pattern of the PNG format to symbolise these “invisible pixels,” whose presence becomes perceptible only through software encoding. The invisible grid is miniaturised and repeatedly layered, forming multiple imperceptible strata that evoke the infinite proliferation of switchable layers inherent in data production. These digital layers are ultimately transferred and pressed onto metal plates, where their surfaces undergo controlled burning, causing changes in colour and the formation of new oxidation products. Each burn generates unpredictable outcomes, emphasising the process’s inherent uncertainty and the delicate interplay between control and material autonomy. </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2520257502008045515511504860508/1100.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2520470352144169998681358234972/2.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Only the Switchable Exists (2025) UV-cured ink on anodized aluminum, partially flame-oxidized copper and brass (iridescent surface), black mirror panel 60 x 90 cm, Edition of 1 + 1AP In the context of digital technology, material existence is conditioned by the ability to be switched, rewritten, or replaced. In this work, I employ the transparent checkerboard pattern of the PNG format to symbolise these “invisible pixels,” whose presence becomes perceptible only through software encoding. The invisible grid is miniaturised and repeatedly layered, forming multiple imperceptible strata that evoke the infinite proliferation of switchable layers inherent in data production. These digital layers are ultimately transferred and pressed onto metal plates, where their surfaces undergo controlled burning, causing changes in colour and the formation of new oxidation products. Each burn generates unpredictable outcomes, emphasising the process’s inherent uncertainty and the delicate interplay between control and material autonomy. </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2521730034807292738193460589916/3.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2523170963722255677986110207324/4.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2595274854974184696523436356956/Only-the-Switchable-Exists-2.jpg <div style="text-align: left"> </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2595333188836267827132868359516/Only-the-Switchable-Exists-3.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Only the Switchable Exists (2025) UV print on aluminum 60 x 90 cm, Editiion of 2+ 1AP Collected by Swatch Art Peace Hotel Collection </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2596531545796779609230781216092/Only-the-Switchable-Exists-4.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/at-the-origin-lies-the-likeness 2026-03-29T04:52:01+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2272720314432827865914172274012/2024_01_08_19_03_IMG_8140.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2558182825959146295136738375004/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-3.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2558182980081693030980042126684/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2558183097716579989025852781916/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-6.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2558183201848450285116271654236/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-4.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2558183312805615888479224624476/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-5.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2558184699059986283678319015260/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-1.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/heshe 2025-09-18T02:01:10+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2339602555771421279550519407964/Obedience.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2370874474736749956905734272348/He--She.jpg <div style="text-align: left">He, She (2019) Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 100% cotton, Edition of 5 + 1AP</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2403087712679202935265200207196/he-she-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2403087712697649679338909758812/he-she3.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2403087712716096423412619310428/he-she4.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/ephemeral-dualities-1 2025-11-22T09:38:10+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2272735608314744729250354722140/2024_05_17_21_10_IMG_1602.00_00_16_05.001.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2275488313959263166188788938076/Ephemeral Dualities <div style="text-align: left">Ephemeral Dualities (2024) Moving image, Green screen suit 1 min 38 seconds In the video, the green-screen figure is split across two temporalities: the immediate and the delayed, the real and its digital mirror. It emerges from the gaps between frames, then divides, functioning independently before eventually collapsing back into the interval from which it came—repeating this cycle without resolution. The piece centres on the instability of the “self” within technical imagery: the body is no longer a single origin but is fragmented into retrievable, switchable units. It becomes a composite of temporal fragments, each capable of being summoned, displaced or overwritten. </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2497741211929013796573727192412/1.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Ephemeral Dualities (2024) Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 100% cotton 81 x 45.5 cm </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2497741357695185467026604062044/2.jpg <div style="text-align: left">Ephemeral Dualities (2024) Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 100% cotton 81 x 45.5 cm </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2563498139639793848423419245916/Ephemeral-dualities.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2563599067974727122146719724892/Ephemeral-dualities--3.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2594768321641253801213544396124/Skin.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/new-freedom 2025-09-18T02:01:10+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2272630924444078977146859844956/You-have-to-give-up-everything-you-have-gained--video.jpg <div style="text-align: left">New Freedom: You have to give up everything you have gained (2023) Video, Performance at Battersea, London 2 mins 4 seconds </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2272789479005545969907482785116/DSCF7630.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2272791508553222447579770680668/DSCF7643.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2300921661336519662845844288860/You have to give up everything you have gained https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2370902330611573343488343045468/you-have-to-give-up-Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg <div style="text-align: left">New Freedom: You have to give up everything you have gained (2023) Video, Performance at Battersea, London 2 mins 4 seconds </div> https://lianjiangzhu.com/kaleidoscope-1 2025-09-18T02:01:10+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1802162652598940515331700192604/IMG_0115.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1802163539075673721517912651100/01621073.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1802166028279319027884807714140/IMG_0115.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1802171491079662272157713724764/IMG_0117.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2272630924444078977146859844956/You-have-to-give-up-everything-you-have-gained--video.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/narcissus-in-the-mirror-1 2025-11-22T09:48:28+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2272632184485826420025202079068/Lianjiang-Zhu_Narcissus-in-the-Mirror_01.jpg <div style="text-align: left"> </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2434679206543745930897425462620/Narcissus-in-the-Mirror.jpg <div style="text-align: left"> </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2505973556990210704017765725532/Narcissus in the Mirror <div style="text-align: left">Narcissus in the Mirror (2024) Four-channel projection with sound, Moving image, AI technology 3 mins Narcissus in the Mirror uses the structure of the digital mirror to examine how the self is distorted and dispersed within technological and social conditions. Working with fictionalised portraits, the artist employs AI techniques to replace the faces of protagonists in classic romantic films, treating the intimate relations portrayed on screen as collectively constructed fantasies. These cinematic fragments function as templates through which individuals form and sustain idealised versions of themselves, generating an endlessly looping desire. The work reveals this process as a form of fetishisation—where the self becomes an object continually shaped, projected and consumed through images.</div> https://lianjiangzhu.com/about 2026-03-14T13:43:43+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2649903521788437804326437811548/Lianjiang-Zhu-.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/cv 2026-03-14T13:45:11+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2649903521788437804326437811548/Lianjiang-Zhu-.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com 2026-03-06T09:44:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X962484719383791547848739692211/t13.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2390319231125376232923863479644/The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2390432651041993900544231765340/you-have-to-give-up-Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2422304186422506150850013197660/dolly-Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2425126122273258106023162705244/Have-you-received-my-signal--Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2434681889401310523067193390428/Narcissus-in-the-Mirror.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2435091809480128610865808438620/Looking-for-Adonis--Lianjiang-Zhu.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2488571892320282875609357776220/Have-you-received-my-signal.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2521731567122982709024784676188/2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2558181140498587024368716772700/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-1.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2558182003345041072132993611100/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-3.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2563499832091669123127360910684/Ephemeral-dualities.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2583810002776458456013042120028/The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2583823788600153805445960856924/Looking-for-Adonis---2.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2593595060793524770233351697756/Wake-up-in-a-Miracle.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2593608369123249771694526854492/IMG_1458.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2598228131458274022966996268380/Looking-for-Adonis.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2598238991609912537991319156060/At-the-Origin-Lies-the-Likeness--2025--Lianjiang-Zhu-6.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2657728525551851152272339006812/Looking-for-Adonis.jpg https://lianjiangzhu.com/left-nav-—-desktop 2026-03-14T13:55:02+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2272094296834611815042527819100/Lianjiang-Zhu--The-Missed-Calls-of-Dolly--Moving-image--AI2.jpg