Photos from the final group thesis show @therichardanddollymaassgallery before the finale show in NYC for the MFA 2026 graduates
Animus Zhang’s toolkit includes the smartphone, inkjet printer, screens, projectors, and social media. These tools are used, in various combinations, to conceive, manufacture, and display their work. Through photography, text, and video, Zhang makes observations about the relationships humans have with non-human things. The observations are evidence of human desire. Zhang’s images are strategic distortions of disused or intermediate industrial places, that disorient the viewer. Solitary abandoned objects emerge from the shadows of eerie landscapes provoking a range of emotions; from curiosity, unease or disgust to profound loneliness. Other works deliver humorous commentary on our often-unhealthy attachment to digital electronic devices. Zhang’s medium of choice is therefore self-referential and self-critical. And like our interactions with modern technology, this work relies upon its audience’s looking, thinking and feeling for its completion.
Photos by @yokosnoopy
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