Artist Peng Zuqiang, winner of the Art Explora residency at the Cité des Arts, is interested in the emotional resonance of stories, bodies and language. His work includes films, videos and installations.

Peng Zuqiang talks about his career and Understories, the research project he is currently developing, which began with research into 8.75 mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere. This format, for which no cameras have ever been made, was mainly used for mobile projection units to show films in the countryside, mountains, islands and ethnic minority regions of China in the 70s and 80s. Peng Zuqiang wants to reimagine this propaganda medium as a medium of memory, resilience and other myths.

Peng Zuqiang was born in 1992 in Changsha, China. He lives and works in Amsterdam. His work has been shown in a number of institutions, including the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Italy, 2023), Videobrasil (Brazil, 2023), Kevin Space (Austria, 2023), Cell Project Space (UK, 2022), and e-flux screening room (USA, 2022).
 

Photo credit: © Sander van Wettum