Siyu Zhong

About the Artist

Siyu Zhong is a painter working between Beijing and Detroit. Her work investigates memory, ruin, and the spaces that survive their original use.

Working primarily in oil on canvas, she paints interiors, thresholds, and figures drawn from memory: a demolished hutong, the Yuan dynasty ramparts beside which she grew up, a stairwell of unclear function in an unspecified institution. Her work investigates what she calls "specifically anonymous" places, sites stripped of their original meaning by historical violence rather than by globalization.