Tabula Rasa Gallery

ARTIST

EVA Yi Zhang

Zhang Yi (born in 1989 in Chengdu) currently works and lives in Shanghai. Her artwork often revolves around the experiences of women in both the workplace and daily life. Zhang Yi is self-taught in sewing and fabric transformation techniques, and her pieces involve dyeing, cutting, and collage of fabrics. She draws inspiration from everyday life and historical texts like "Exemplary Women" to reimagine existing narratives about women. Her first solo exhibition took place in May 2021 at the Tabula Rasa Gallery in Beijing during the Beijing Art Gallery Week.

Recently, her creative work has continued to explore the female body as its main subject, where parts of the body are depicted as broken steel bars, pieces of wood, or thorns, or are pierced and stretched to express the artist's personal experience of pain. The works include raised fabric shapes that seem to reveal unknown secrets hidden within the body.