Art Basel Paris
Bruno Zhu
Emergence Booth K10
October 16 - 20, 2024
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V O I L À ! ?, 2024 (detail)
Cotton, straw hat, four custom tailored wool skirts size 14 US, hardware
850 x 380 x 20 cm (334 x 149 x 8 in.)
What Pipeline presents a sexy and ridiculous booth by Bruno Zhu!? Influenced by fashion design, publishing and scenography, Zhu works in the space of fiction to rewrite agency, authorship, consumption and power. Zhu’s new body of work consists of a textile alphabet and a series of wearable sculptures in the shape of punctuation marks. This body of work pushes further Zhu’s interest in Dressing and Addressing as conjoined political aesthetic notions.
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Bruno Zhu (b. 1991 in Porto, Portugal) is based between The Netherlands and Portugal. Influenced by fashion design, publishing and scenography, Zhu works in the space of fiction to rewrite agency, authorship, consumption and power. Zhu’s new body of work consists of a textile alphabet and a series of wearable sculptures in the shape of punctuation marks. This body of work pushes further Zhu’s interest in Dressing and Addressing as conjoined political aesthetic notions.
Recent solo exhibitions include I believe you at Veronica, Seattle (2024), Everybody is Crazy at What Pipeline, Detroit (2023), and I am not afraid at Cordova, Barcelona (2022). Recent group exhibitions include My Oma at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Zürich Biennale at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Comizi d’Amore at Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, and O Quilombismo at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, all in 2023. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Chisenhale, London (November 2024), M HKA, Antwerp (January 2025), and CAM Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon (October 2025). Zhu is a member of A Maior, a curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal.
Made possible with financial support from the Mondriaan Fund.
