Chen Zhou

Chen Zhou
The Story of Nanka Gulu and Iron Hawk
2021
Short video, HD2080P
14’00’’

Out of unknown reasons, an Iron Hawk (drone), escaped from the factory, flew across the sea and arrived on an island to find Nanka Gulu, god of the mountain. Nanka Gulu adopted Iron Hawk, named it Diemo, meaning “the primordial awareness”.

About Chen Zhou：
Chen Zhou (b. 1987, China) currently lives and works in Shanghai. His early works center on the spiritual predicaments in contemporary life and try to respond to and deconstruct them humorously and absurdly. From 2022, Chen turned internally to human spiritual force and sentience. Specializing in abstract narrative cinematic images, paintings, and writing, Chen creates tranquil and intuitive scenarios that seek to provoke the viewers into introspection by capturing a vague gap between the lived experience of reality and the trance of void. He likens it to the trigger of an inner mirror.