Bruno Zhu (b. 1991, Porto, Portugal, currently based in London) explores his fascination for photography’s ambivalent symbol as surface and object, representation and appropriation. Transposed into 3D installation, he explores the mechanism of desire and identity, through the fictions implied in consumption and commodities. Flatness is a state that particularly interests the artist, from the page of a magazine, becoming an image-object creating an augmented reality. Intimacy is also a recurrent component of his work. He is currently working on a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Lisbon in 2018, based on the narrative of his parents, who are Chinese immigrants who arrived in the 80s in Portugal. They run a store in a small town of Portugal, in which Bruno Zhu curated several exhibitions with the complicity of the employees.