Encroachment of the Surreal: Interview with Wenxin Zhang
By Scott Norton
An image of empty rooms with stained carpets and cracking furniture. A pair of hands emerging from the mass of twisted roots of an overturned tree. Lights from a city overlaid with digitally rendered forms to create an impossible scene. These are some of the enigmatic visions captured and created by Wenxin Zhang, whose work employs the juxtaposition of the surreal with the commonplace to interrogate the phantasmagoria that is memory.