Talking to him
moving image(35’’loop) AI technology
The old television, as a relic of the analog era, once served as a carrier of authentic family memories, now transformed into a display window for digital fiction. AI technology constructs gazes that never existed by analyzing old photographs, creating a form of "hyperreality": far more perfect than reality, yet utterly false. This media displacement reveals a paradox—the more we rely on technology to correct the past, the further we drift from the authenticity of memory itself, becoming thoroughly pitiful.
I chose to include no sound art whatsoever in this work. In this silent space, silence becomes a present continuous tense. This renders the work's title even more ironic.
This piece points to a heartbreaking truth: everything is an illusion within power relations. Equality, symbiosis, independence, communication—whatever form it takes, it is nothing more than fabricated narrative, a utopian fantasy feast. The dialogue between my father and me has never truly existed, and never will.
Relevant Works
Artworks ↗
Kisen (2025)
The Night I was on my Balcony (2025)
Parasite (2025)
Talking to him (2025)
EMANON (2025)
Reborn (2024)
The Body in Blue (2024)
Traces: ‘Free-assemblage making’ as a method to touch self-narrative (2024)
The Tent (2024)
Will U Remember me? (2024)
Won’t U Remember me? (2024)
Comet Tail (2024)
Null-Flux (2024)
Sleeping in the wood (2024)
No.0-PI (2023)
No.219 (2023)
No.-1 (2023)
No.9719 No.1202 No.2202 No.1520 (2023)
Unknown Utopia (2023)
A Punch on Tofu (2023)
CSI;’‘’‘’‘’‘;’;/;;‘’/;‘;(2023)
Profile (Sample)
Iris Lingyu Zhang (b. 1997, Beijing) is a multimedia artist and researcher working between London and Beijing. Her emotionally immersive works span digital and installation-based media, exploring feminist inquiries into the body, space, and desire. Drawing on psychology and philosophy, her practice negotiates identity, intimacy, and cultural memory through porous visual forms.
Iris holds a Master of Research from the Royal College of Art and pursuing her second Master’s degree in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has exhibited internationally, with recent shows including international Biennale THE WRONG, Visions in the Nunnery 2025 at London Bow Art Gallery, Permeate in Vienna, and Instante in São Paulo. Her work has also been presented at IKLECTIK, Hundred Years Gallery, and The Handbag Factory, among others.
Email, Instagram ↗
Education
Master of Fine Art Sep 2026 -
Goldsmiths, University of London
Master of Research
Visual Communication Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Royal College of Art
Exhibitions ↗
A Room for Unbecoming Women
The Handbag Factory, 3 Loughborough Street SE11 5TB
30.07.2026 - 03.08.2026
TABOO
Bradley House, 26 ST Albans LN, NW11 7QE
23.07.2026 - 13.08.2026
THE WRONG International Biennale Transient Info
Virtual Worldwide
01.11.2025 - 31.03.2026
Visions in the Nunnery 2025
Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road E3 2SJ
04.10.2025 - 09.11.2025
The Green Grammar
art'otel London Hoxton, 1-3 Rivington Street, EC2A 3DT
27.06.2025 - 29.06.2025
Pieces of Me
Artworks East Gallery, 32-34 Osier Way, E10 5SB
06.06.2025 - 04.07.2025
Behind the Closed Doors – Safehouse, 137 Copeland Road SE15 3SN
31.05.2025 - 03.06.2025
Permeate – West/Alte WU, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria
29.03.2025 - 03.04.2025
Secret Salon: Electric Ladyland
Caveside Cl, Old Hill, Chislehurst BR7 5NL
14.12.2024
Instante
Echos Studio, Rua Pelotas, 400 - Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
07.12.2024 - 20.12.2024
The Dark Side
Boomer Gallery, 150 Tooley Street, London SE1 2TU
08.11.2024 - 13.11.2024
MYSTICAL
Fox Yard Studio, 6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB
25.10.2024 - 05.11.2024
Sound Field Folding
Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson St, London E2 8JD
03.08.2024
MRes RCA 2024 Research Journeys
The Hanger Gallery, London SW11 4NL
26.07.2024 - 01.08.2024
Fragment for the Future; Movement
The Hanger Gallery, London SW11 4NL
29.04.2024 - 01.05.2024
Whispers of the Unseen: Sonic Alchemy
Iklectik, 20 Carlisle Lane, London SE1 7LG
13.12.2023
Press ↗
Ourculture Art&Photography: “In the syntax of pauses: Sensing the green grammar” 2025
FAD Magazine
“Behind the closed doors: Reconstructin the narrative of home in a crumbling house”. 2025
Divide Magazine issue 12 2024
Collect Art Magazine winter issue seasonal edition 2024
Reflections of the Past, Visions of Tomorrow 2024
Artistcloseup Magazine issue 25 2024
Artistcloseup Blog individual interview 2024