Zhou Song: Supernatural·Algorithm

Zhou Song’s solo show echoes traditional Chinese landscape painting but employs symbolic imagery to explore relationships between nature, technology, and faith. The ‘anthropomorphic tree’ is central, serving as a metaphor for nature’s alienation by technology – “these trees retain natural forms while merging with human features, hinting at a future possibility: as algorithms silently infiltrate every corner of nature, can it preserve its primal purity? Or will it inevitably fuse with human civilisation, becoming an entirely new entity?” Song’s ‘Pencil trees’, by contrast, symbolise a primordial state. Their delicate lines and soft hues evoke tranquillity and harmony; yet pencils are also tools that embody human wisdom and carry the memory of civilisation. ‘Twisted candles’, another key element, suggest light, hope, and faith – but they are not just metaphors for religion and belief but profound meditations on hope and rebirth. They remind us that faith and hope remain even under technological upheaval. It’s a technologically transformed natural world that witnesses the collision of nature and technology and contemplates the future of humanity and faith … To 17 June.