The work is framed and lit by LED light.
Cotton threads embroidery on gloss photograph print, water colour. 290 x 390 mm
Look For Clove Oil is a series of intervened images, photographic prints embroidered with cotton thread. The pierced stitch-work evokes the form of mould and mildew through Chinese Knot stitch technique. Zhou activates the images through embroidery, pushing the objects from a captured moment to an expanded memory. The artwork relates the time and labour of craft practices to the aesthetics of objects that are conditioned to the climate of the tropics. Zhou presents an unidealised living environment, paradise as dystopia; individually the works employ the aesthetics of decomposition and mould.