We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

VCA Art 2024

Honours

This work consists of hundreds of self-portraits captured using a black-and-white film camera. Through post-processing, each frame is gradually overlaid, forming a continuous strip of images that transition from dark to light in an endless loop. This process of repetition and layering reflects the artist‘s attitude on the repetitiveness of life itself—repetition folds the details of daily existence, eventually fading them into a blank space. Life, composed of these repeated days, forms a rhythmic pattern of dissolution and reappearance. Through this visual expression, the artist visualizes the dissolution and reappearance of individual existence within the repetitive cycles of life.

Mingyuan Zhang

Mingyuan Zhang, Installation View. Image Courtesy of University of Melbourne.