Huanzhe Hu (b.2000) is an interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work begins with a simple desire: to give form to things that are invisible, inaudible, or otherwise beyond direct perception. The sound of ice forming, slowly shifting weather patterns, vortices moving beneath the surface—she builds instruments for these phenomena, directing attention toward aspects that can never be fully grasped. Hu carefully establishes the conditions under which a work may unfold, leaving the rest to time, environment, and a person who experiences and continually forgets. In an era when systems claim to record, archive, and replay everything, she is drawn to what can only be encountered firsthand and can never be completely preserved.

Beyond her artistic practice, Huanzhe has served as a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Iceland University of the Arts, and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Her research engagements at Brown University’s Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences further inform her work. She has received commissions from institutions like Hyundai and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Ivy Film Festival, Loosen Art Gallery in Rome, Andrými in Iceland, and Latitude Gallery in New York. Huanzhe is a recipient of several awards, including the CSC (China Scholarship Council) Scholarship, the Margot & Thomas Pritzker Scholarship, and the RISD Graduate Fellowship.

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Artist Statement

My work stems from a simple wish: to revitalize the intangible, visualize the imperceptible, and give volume to the inaudible. I make site-specific installations and time-based work that give form to things beyond direct perception. The sound of ice forming, slowly shifting weather patterns, vortices moving beneath the surface. I build instruments that attend to these phenomena, focusing on what cannot be fully grasped, and I set the conditions under which they can emerge. The rest is left to time, to environment, and to a perceiver who is both experiencing and continually forgetting.

In an era that claims to record and replay everything, my practice turns toward what can only exist through lived encounter—what appears only in experience, and disappears within the same moment.




艺术家陈述

我的作品源于一个简单的愿望：为不可见、不可闻、不可感之物赋形。在跨学科的实践中，我通过创作装置、实验电影和摄影作品来体现技术、神秘主义和正在消逝的灵性之间的复杂关系。我专注于探索人类与非人类之间的潜在交流，研究物、物种、空间之间的协同进化。我认为世界没有确定的中心，没有单一的物种或内在声音作为主导。我试图通过诗意的镜头和强调传统感知外的体验来表达我眼中“去人类中心化”的世界。我目前对冰的探索是我与这个不易察觉的世界持续对话的延伸，这种对话围绕着万物间安静、深刻的相互联系。





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