Art. Statement

T Ju Zab’s work explores the connection between memories and subconsciousness in our lives. She finds inspiration in ideas such as Hypnagogic state, subconsciousness, and childhood memories.

 

Working with media like digital photography and video, she applies double exposure techniques and processes to analog film, allowing her to express something that evokes memory and experience.

 

Zab explores how past experiences either from our childhood or adolescence can have such an input on shaping our character as adults. The concepts of different realities and how we are currently living within virtual states of reality is the subject in Zab’s latest video work.

                                 

                     Biography

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Zab was born into a Circus Family in Russia, for much of her childhood and adolescence she would continue to perform in the circus until an injury at the age of sixteen forced her to close that chapter in her life. As a child, she traveled all over the world until her adult years where she finally settled in Germany. Throughout all this time she has a passion for creative arts. After her injury at sixteen, her passion only further increased.

 

Acquiring many skills whilst living in the Art community of the Greenhouse in Berlin, she began to specialize herself in analog photography and often utilized double exposure in creating her works. In video-based work, she explored the subject of sub-consciousness and virtual reality as a primary focus.

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At age twenty-one she found her twin brother who was residing in Ireland at the time, this led her to move to Limerick where she began studying at Limerick School of Art and Design where she now continues to produce creative projects alongside her twin brother.