Zifan Sun's Blurred Aesthetics Explore Migration, Memory, and Femininity Across Media
Zifan Sun, a London-based visual artist, explores concepts like partial visibility, migration, and femininity through various forms of art including photography, painting, and mixed media. In her upcoming 2025 collection, Held in Blur, she uses an acrylic sheet to create soft images of flowers and foliage, celebrating imperfection. Her 2024 work, Afterglow, features overexposed cityscapes that reflect her fragmented feelings of home from living in China and the UK. Sun's 2021 piece, Persephone, reinterprets the traditional Chinese piaoqi technique, symbolizing the first spring after the pandemic. Her figurative works, like Umbilical and Flower (2023) and A Model of Virtue (2025), tackle themes of womanhood and social expectations, earning her recognition at events like the London Design Festival.
Key facts
- Zifan Sun is a London-based visual artist who studied architecture in Glasgow
- Her series Held in Blur (2025) was created using an acrylic sheet as a handmade diffuser
- Afterglow (2024) explores Sun's fragmented relationship with home through distorted cityscapes
- Sun's painting Persephone (2021) reinterprets the Chinese piaoqi (floating lacquer) technique
- Figurative works include A Model of Virtue (2025), depicting Chinese women under feudal ethics
- Sun's work has been presented at London Design Festival and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
- The artist moves between China and the UK, with migration as a central theme
- Her approach uses blurring and distortion to create generative spaces for experimentation
Entities
Artists
- Zifan Sun
- Rinko Kawauchi
- Gerhard Richter
Institutions
- London Design Festival
- Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
- blackdotgallery.com
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- Glasgow
- Scotland
- China