XIWEN ZHU

In Soft Shell, the artist’s first museum exhibition, SCAD alum Xiwen Zhu (M.F.A., photography, 2015) presents a selection of works from her series Casual Territory. These striking images depict dreamlike dioramas staged at the artist’s studio in Shanghai. Each scene consists of found items intermixed with photographic materials such as snapshots and cut-outs of stock photos. Obscuring the threshold between image and object, Xiwen Zhu plays with dimensionality in an allusion to the undulating boundaries of private and public space.