Heterotopia | Shengni Zhang张圣妮

My Dream, My Heterotopia

Heterotopia is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow ‘other’: disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming. Heterotopias are worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside.

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I tried different materials to reflect the images, different shooting angles, using my hand to move the hologram and so on.

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VR version of the work was shown on RCA Wip show:

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I consider my dreams as heterotopia. They somehow reflect reality, but I can only reach there though my thoughts and imagination.

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One day I dreamt that the world was infected by a kind of virus, and there was grass made of steel appearing everywhere suddenly. When people touch them, they will be hurt.