Artist Bio
Coraline Zhou excavates the space where language fails.
Working across psychology, education, and visual art contexts—universities, galleries, art education agencies, NGOs- she has watched people reach for words that don't exist yet. Her practice sits in that reaching: the moment before articulation, where meaning is felt but not yet fixed.
She writes and draws at the threshold of the asemic. Not silence, but the ghost signals that precede language. The neural residue of a thought that hasn't learned to speak. The mark's consciousness is made when it tries to translate itself and can't. Her work asks: what happens to the self as it rewrites itself across languages, geographies, systems of belief? What remains in the space between who you were and who you're performing? She's interested in the traces—the glitches, the static, the parts that refuse to cohere. Not to uncover something whole, but to sit with what fragments, what won't resolve, what remains untranslatable even to yourself.