Hantao Zhuang

Drawing on cross-cultural experiences of moving between cities, the work begins with generic and easily overlooked urban spaces: temporary interiors, transitional corners, anonymous structures and fragments of everyday architecture. Through mixed-media arrangements and lens-based capture, these familiar environments are reconstructed as unstable psychological spaces rather than neutral backgrounds.

The work considers how identity is shaped not only by where we live, but also by the spaces we pass through without fully belonging to. By defamiliarising ordinary surroundings, The Place of Interlocking reveals the quiet tension between public urban order and private emotional experience, suggesting that even the most impersonal spaces can carry traces of memory, displacement and inner uncertainty.