Leah Zhang works with film, photography, sound and installation. With a background in film studies, her work is a research practice around image and media. Zhang’s work usually involves (on-site) labour and extensive collaboration. Shaped by her memory of growing up in a mining town in China, Zhang’s practice incorporates an inward-looking perspective, which, just like mining, digs deeper and deeper into the ground. Inspired by alchemy in mining, Zhang’s interest rests in transformation and its ability to shift value and ontology. She is drawn to the unstable passages between forms of being and body, where the cinematic, the poetic, the magical, the chemical, the social, and the personal overlap, rendering moments when representations fail.
Zhejun Gao is an art researcher and curator, whose work focuses on systems of categorisation, archival studies and collective trauma in contemporary art. His recent curatorial practice explores the displacement of artefacts and knowledge production modes, examining how museums narrate objects and classify collections. Alongside his curatorial work, Zhejun maintains an interest in Hip-hop and experimental music in China. He has contributed to programmes at institutions across China and internationally, including recent projects in collaboration with museums and art centres in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Zhejun Gao is currently the 2025 Asymmetry Curatorial Research Fellow at Chisenhale Gallery.