Interview with Ruomeng
Who
Ruomeng, I see myself as an artist working with images, rather than belonging to a single medium.
What
currently, I work with painting, collage, and recomposing images..
How
I work with photographs and screenshots that I collect from everyday life and the internet.
I then intervene in them by painting, collaging, or using tape to destroy, transfer, and reconstruct the images.
Why
I grew up with the emergence of the internet, and saw how image quality from low to high, and then because of some political and legal factors , back to unclear again.
I am interested in this process of collapse and distortion. Image quality as well as invisibility is closely related to questions of power.
Where
My works are often presented in a white cube, Sometimes in unconventional exhibition spaces, such as gyms or butcher shops, they engage with topics such as politics.
When
I don’t easily enter a working state, but I continuously think and collect.
Sometimes it takes me a long time, even several years to understand what is happening around me, and only then I respond through my work.
At other times, the response is immediate, and a work can be finished within a few days.
Both rhythms exist in my practice.
Artform
image-based practice
Artistic Research
My research focuses on the circulation of images, especially how images degrade, distort, and lose clarity.
I’m interested in how this process relates to power, visibility, and control.
Material
photographs, paint, prints, found materials
Aesthetic Vocabulary
distortion,fragmentation,duplication, low resolution
Referential Projects
Artists such as Hito Steyerl, Jon Rafman