Zhou, Alaric, 2024

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Alaric Zhou's MFA/EDA thesis for 2024, titled SEEN consists of photo prints: 44x44'', Epson Premium Luster Paper, black and white, photos taken with Hasselblad 500cm with Ilford films. The experimental essay film is not included.

From the artist's statement: "SEEN is a two part MFA thesis which includes a short experimental essay film and an exhibition. The film and exhibition are related in theme but presented as two separate works. Both concern how still and moving images can visualize displaced memories. The archived are materials for the exhibition.

The exhibition, includes a series of photography works and a one-channel video. It showcases fragments of urban recollections that one fails to place. These fragments are discrete, out-of-context and removed from geological, chronological, and cultural frameworks. The still and motion images function in different manners of shaping our impressions to the urban landscape but both fail to connect us to the real memories. Eventually they linger as pieces in between the reality and fantasy, past and present, places and non-places."

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Tianming Zhou (Alaric) is a Chinese filmmaker and photographer currently based in the USA. His work focuses on mental health, displaced memories, and the Chinese diaspora. Alaric grew up in Mainland China and completed his bachelor's degree in Hong Kong, where he developed a passion for street photography and film studies. Before pursuing his MFA at Duke University, he worked as a documentary editor and independent filmmaker for fictional films. His MFA experiences convinced him to further experiment with the boundary between fiction and non-fiction, frequently expressed through meta-films and docu-fictions. During this period, he also expanded his artistic practice into video art and expanded cinema installations.

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