Bruno Zhu

Mr. Black, Mr. Navy, Mr. Stripes

Mr. Black, Mr. Navy, Mr. Stripes by Bruno Zhu is a photographic series of opera gloves made of men’s tailored trousers that were presented in 2017 in “La Plage” in Paris, a shop window turned into an experimental art space. The personification of the objects named after characters intended to compose a fiction from the display. The project follows Zhu’s thinking on the definition of “queer”: how to express a state? Applied to a space (what he calls “queering the space”) allows him to talk about emotional space: Something soft that can collapse anytime and see that collapse as a potentiality to become new modes of being. For the visitors, this installation, seen as a soft sculpture, addressed the haptic sense, but can also refer to the semiology and the construction of myths. Using a fashion vocabulary resulting from his education in fashion design, Zhu ties a commentary on consumption as a signifier of power and class.