Ke Zhang

The project of “Cordon”represents my attempt to compose a theatrical trick in my paintings. The subject matter is the mirror I use for my daily make-up, at first I wanted to draw something in the mirror, I wanted to draw the blurred tree But then I realized that what was really hidden was the back of the mirror. Compared to the mirror, which would give rise to otherworldly associations, the back was the most easily overlooked hidden space in life. I look at the mirror and think that the mirror provides a puzzle of the same shape to what is behind it, using this virtual image of the same shape as the "some kind of reality" to hide something, as if one can do something behind the mirror and  no one will notice, because such a mirror with clear edges and shapes, this secrecy becomes natural, at least when the two overlap no one will care what is in the overlap. 

In the premise of "seeing is believing" any object has a boundary, that is, the invisible back and visible front, the front is directly to our cognition, we can identify what it is at a glance，but the back, only corresponds to our theoretical cognition, is completely dependent on so frontal discrimination, Because we do not see and understand this side at this moment. The unknown and the truth are synonyms, and for me, the constant doubt of the unknown is the persistence of the truth.

The key to truth, like a water flower, comes from the wings of a silver swan.