I'm Shizhe, an artist grounded in photography and artificial intelligence, currently living in The Hague, Netherlands.
Born and raised in an industrial city in Northeast China, the harsh coldness of the weather and the warmth of empathy among people have shaped who I am. These contrasts—between autonomy and connection, boundaries and overlaps—are at the heart of my work. I’ve always been drawn to exploring what makes up the notion of "SELF" and how it relates to others, whether they’re humans, animals, or even objects. The shifting boundaries between me and the world around me—sometimes clear, sometimes blurred—push me to question the systems of language, logic, and natural laws that dominate how we understand and relate to one another.
My journey has been shaped by the diversity of my academic background—physics, theater, philosophy, and art—all of which inform how I think and create. I start from an interdisciplinary perspective, looking at the visual traces of human-centered philosophies that shape our world today. At the core of my practice is a desire to connect and communicate, and I’ve found image-making to be the most intuitive way to express other ways of seeing—both the physical world and the mind. My work constantly returns to the question: What other forms could our futures take?
My latest project, Diffusion, brings together photography, personalized AI training, and machine weaving to create abstract but tangible representations of memory on fabrics, encouraging viewers to reconsider personal and collective narratives. My works usually engage with the abstract, the mythical, and the ritualistic, offering dialogues about our collective genetic memory and the endless possibilities of what we could become.