Zhi Hu

About

Helen Zhi Hu, a Chinese artist working at the intersection of material and emotion, employs clay to articulate psychological states that resist language. Her practice is grounded in an intimate examination of trauma, attachment styles, and defence mechanisms, exploring how the body and mind respond to silence, separation, and emotional weight. Through restrained and delicate forms, she creates quiet yet echoing works that invite resonance rather than demand interpretation.
In her hands, ceramics become a vessel of containment and transformation, fragile and enduring. Her works include ceramics, installation, and moving images, often combining diverse materials to build emotionally charged environments. With a sensitivity to the tactile and the temporal, she offers spaces for recognition and care, proposing slowness, softness, and presence as forms of resistance. Interdisciplinary in orientation, her practice extends beyond traditional ceramic craft, seeking to expand the emotional vocabulary of contemporary material-based art.