Internal Landscape

Stella Zhang continues her ten-year exploration of the body with new works that act as a meditation on her acute awareness of the internal and external body and how it not only carries consciousness, but also intuition. The exhibiting works in Internal Landscape were created while the artist was quarantined during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many, home became Zhang’s refuge, and in her solitude, she began to notice the quiet tension that exists between the physical and the emotional. More tuned in to her sensitivities and energy, Zhang’s work in Internal Landscape focuses on how the body can be a grounding and reliable source of information. There is a flow of energy found not only between the works in the exhibition, but between those physically and metaphysically present. The works in Internal Landscape are cathartic manifestations that use Zhang’s practice as a method of self-discovery. Zhang’s works tap into an ‘unspoken wisdom’ of her own body, and in finding peace and strength by turning inwards.