Ira Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist that focus on design mainly through fabric, fashion materials, and digital programs to create fashion products, fiber and digital art pieces that explore different themes from project to project. Through colors, forms and visuality, Ira tries to convey emotions as medium to arise thoughts and recognition of self-identities, liberation and femininity. With red color palette, Ira wants to present passion, deconstruction, growing, creepiness, delicate by visuality. Through the elements, Ira wants to express and legitimize feminine rage as well as building ‘unorthodox’ female characters or characteristics by hat making and accessories.
"No", "No", 2022, 3D modeling and print ring and glass, paper print, AI drawing, Sinamay, multi-fabrics, dye, chains, zipper
"No" series
Ira Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist that focus on design mainly through fabric, fashion materials, and digital programs to create fashion products, fiber and digital art pieces that explore different themes from project to project. Through colors, forms and visuality, Ira tries to convey emotions as medium to arise thoughts and recognition of self-identities, liberation and femininity. With red color palette, Ira wants to present passion, deconstruction, growing, creepiness, delicate by visuality.
Women’s anger has been cancelled by pervasive judgement that it reveals women as unreasonable, and the emotion of anger is severed from femininity. Feminine rage always has to be held back. However, a flavor of sweetness is added to the emotion when I allow myself to express rage and start to enjoy being ‘unorthodox’. The feminine emotion of anger can be turned into something delicate as well as tenacious. However, the anger shouldn’t be left unvoiced. My idea is to legitimize feminine rage through only presenting the very subtle emotion flow of how women’s anger feels like than analyzing the concept itself. How women’s venerability as strength have been created and can be seen through the window of their feelings of being angry, which is the most important part I wanted to present. Through the presented elements, Ira wants to express and legitimize feminine rage as well as building ‘unorthodox’ female characters or characteristics by hat making and accessories.