Shi Zheng is a young artist from China who lives between Shanghai and New York.
He creates massive audio-visual installations, digital artworks, music and live performances. Although he has embraced Crypto and NFTs only in 2021, his first work is a massive NFT installation that expresses a critique towards control systems and authoritarian systems. massive audio-visual installations, digital artworks, music and live performances.
The NFT installation, called SANDBOX consists of 24 NFTs and is presented like an imposing Wall of screens, that recalls a huge control room, suggesting the invisible presence of a CCTV-like ‘big brother’ that observes and records everything that moves: each one of his NFT is a dystopian scene of inhuman order, where the only form of life are cars evenly driving around. This work is currently exhibited in Shanghai and you can see some installation shots here http://www.aike-gallery.com/exhibitions.php?id=151&iid=1734 ...friends who have visited the show said its a powerful work. It is an edition of 7 and the whole set of 24 NFTs is priced at 7.5 ETH.
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Shi Zheng has exhibited his work in TANK Shanghai, MOCA Yinchuan, Sound Art China, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Ars Electronica, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Castello di Rivara, The Lumen Prize, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum and OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen.