Jingze Du, Images/ Reflets dans l’eau 2017
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Artwork
Jingze Du believes that the world today consumes visual information at an aggressively accelerating rate. As such, meanings and values are becoming increasingly unstable. Time, or the immediacy of the availability of information, determines how we react and perceive the reality presented (McLuhan, 1994). The boundaries between the conscious and virtual realities are gradually diminishing. With Images/ Reflets dans l’eau, Jingze examines the aesthetic and ethic of the images used. The images are treated similarly to physical materials, becoming purely informative objects. The result of this is that the work becomes more fair-minded and less subjective.
Artist
Jingze was born in China in 1995, and moved to Ireland with his family at age thirteen. He graduated with a BA in Fine Art from NCAD in 2017. Through his artwork, Jingze notes his awareness of the distortion of meaning. He believes thatmeaning can be altered by the composition or the distortion of images; as an object can never really exist on its own, the purpose of an image changes when it is placed in relation to another. An exchange of dialogue occurs between multiple realities. Jingze intends to focus on the construction of the narrative within the frame of the painting. He sees that images exist purely as they are in the painting - a metaphor as such - rather than symbols.
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