Please join us to celebrate Qinru Zhang’s film, Homecore. Zhang will be part of the Denver Digerati mini-residency program at the Denver Evans School. For her work, we will be screening the film as part of SOUND BODY IMAGE co-hosted with Joshua Ware.

In addition to this event, Homecore will be set up in the Denver Digerati space and available for viewing.

Please join us on May 6th to meet the artist who will be in town from NYC.

New York City-based interdisciplinary artist Qinru Zhang has been exploring uncanniness and femininity using digital mediums including 3D animation and mixed reality. Through observing society’s sexualization of femininity, Zhang appropriates, détourns, and normalizes feminine stereotypes to challenge existing gender norms. With Zhang’s unique use of eerie aesthetics in her feminine narrations, she advocates for freedom of choice in women’s self-representation and lifestyles and calls for female empowerment.

Homecore is an animation speaking to the nostalgic complications between future and past, memory and reality, self and others. Inspired by Lacan’s Mirror Theory, Homecore sees urban domesticity as an enchanting no-exit space of self-reflection through the protagonist’s looped daily life. While the content mixes dreams with reality, the viewing medium also lies on the verge of reality. Audiences can choose to watch a 360 animation on a flat screen or experience the protagonist’s mentality in virtual reality.