Signal tower
This work, part of the Toy Project, revolves around my recent interest in children's play, where children never explain the "meaning" of play, but instead measure the world with their bodies, crushing order into new rules, and in the process generating endless imagination. Hundreds of children's toys collected were sprayed with metallic paint, de-industrialised and treated with traces of use, and transformed into black cell tower installations to express reflections on childhood, consumerism and the impact of technology.
Zichen Xu currently living and working in Beijing, graduated from the School of Experimental Art and Technology Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) with a Master's degre. In 2018, he studied Media Art at Karlsruhe Academy of Art and Design（HfG）, Germany. His recent practice focuses on children's play behavior and undisciplined improvisational creativity in a rapidly changing technological age, using digital and physical media to explore non-human interaction mechanisms in hybrid Spaces. His work media include photography, video, and installation etc.
"Mechanical Senses", Unicorn Art Space, Beijing, 2017;
"Movement in Form", Karlsruhe University of Art and Design, Germany, 2017;
"Foreign Bodies, Karlsruhe Municipal Hospital, Germany, 2018;
"SIZE", Garage Space, Beijing, 2018;
"Taxi Project - Coordinate Transformation", Visible Gallery, Beijing, 2019;
