Didi Zhou
BFA in Fine Art — Fine ArtAs We Are (She Still There, As Her)
As We Are (She Still There, As Her) is a site-specific installation composed of twenty-seven small mirrors elevated by found objects—bricks, a stool, a faucet, and pieces of rusted metal, each referencing the elemental cycle of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Many mirrors carry traces of erosion, scratches, and dulling, while one remains completely untouched, suspended without support.
As viewers move through the space, their reflections break apart and reassemble across different surfaces, shifting with each change in angle, height, and proximity. The installation uses this unstable visual field to explore the tension between clarity and distortion, presence and disappearance. By encountering themselves only in fragments, viewers experience the act of self-perception as something contingent and fluid, shaped not only by the mirrors, but by their own movement and willingness to look.