Based in New York and Shanghai, Yuechen Guan, known professionally as Zona, has extensive experience in a wide range of artistic disciplines. Her current practice focuses on photography and design, work that has received numerous awards, but she has also garnered prizes for her painting, acting, dance, and musical performance. She has also worked as an interdisciplinary designer, teaching the subject in her native China. The recent recipient of a Master’s in Digital Photography from New York’s prestigious School of Visual Arts, Zona has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and abroad. Her most recent series of photographs, Juxtapose, explores how Chinese classical dance has been influenced by global and Western culture through a series of images portraying both traditional and modern performance styles. These photographs will be displayed in fall 2022 at Manhattan’s SVA Gramercy Gallery.

Discussing Time Book by Zona Yuechen Guan Discussing Time is a book that records a group discussion about the concept of time and presents typographic sculptures inspired by that discussion. The book measures 7 by 12 inches. One sculpture is made of ice, formed by pouring water into molds and freezing it. As the ice melts into water, the passage of time becomes visible to the audience. The layout refers to illuminated manuscripts and parchment books of the early sixteenth century, combined with modern photography. The result links historic book design with present technology.

Zona Yuechen Guan

No.47 Long'an Road, Shihua, Jinshan

200540

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Zona Yuechen Guan is IDC member since 2022, with 2030 IDC rating.