(Archive) Purity of true feelings

Purity of true feelings (Summer memories I)

This sculpture that presented at Dutch Design Week 2024 as part of the Purity of true feelings series.

Ying Zheng's practices explored topics like social alienation, consumerism, and human experience. The project Purity of True Feelings explores the pure feelings of humanity and relationships.

In her current artworks, Ying Utilizes the delicate balance between stability and fluidity in ceramics to explore the essence and internal relationship of projection, superego, and conflict in romantic relationships. The works take on an abstract form with a porous structure, symbolizing the virtual changes that occur within our bodies: the untouchable, but real and emotional changes in feelings. The liquid flow from the inside out also expresses the intensity of emotions.

She uses gloop glaze as a powerful visual language, to express the concept of ‘fossilized emotion’. She uses ceramic sculpture as a medium to record and preserve the complexity of the inner world and psychological processes of the individual by exploring the innocence of feelings and emotional changes in human romantic relationships.