Dori Deng b. 1985

The Chinese-British artist Dori Deng (*1985) creates timeless compositions of architectural objects. Her works move between installation, performance and sculpture and combine genre-specific elements in an overarching and integrative way. Her "Expansion" series is a string of spacial intervientions that began in 2020. Inspired by the modernist architecture of the 1920s, Deng creates snapshots of room structures in the course of her "Expansions" - and adds subtle extensions to them. To this end, she combines natural objects, industrial production and light to create installative arrangements - body and place are poetically but unpathetically interwoven. The handmade and the manufactured, the deviant and the standardised come together. Light functions not only as an object or subject, but also as a sensual abstraction - a tool to visualise our unconscious imagination associated with architectural space and time.
Deng has participated in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including Paris, London, Berlin, Beijing and Florence, and has been recognised for her unique approach and contribution to art with multiple awards and grants. She lives and works in Bristol, UK and Beijing, China.