Urban Forest_25 is part of Yun Zhang’s Urban Forest series. It is a site-specific digital painting that explores the complex and often paradoxical relationship between humans and plants in urban environments. Through her unique visual language, the artist reflects on how this relationship can be both confrontational and symbiotic. In this work, natural growth seems to reclaim rigid man-made structures, prompting a dialogue between architectural order and organic vitality. The piece serves as both a poetic gesture and a quiet warning – reminding us of the fragile balance we inhabit.

Yun Zhang, born in 1993 in China, currently lives and studies in Lisbon, Portugal, where she continues to develop her research and practice in the visual arts. She is pursuing a PhD in Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.  She completed her graduate studies in Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages – Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and undergraduate studies in Public Art – Mural at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. Her works have been exhibited in various Italian cities, as well as in multiple locations across China.

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Urbani gozd_25 je del umetničine serije Urbani gozd. Gre za digitalno sliko, specifično za lokacijo, ki raziskuje kompleksen in pogosto paradoksalen odnos med ljudmi in rastlinami v urbanih okoljih. Umetnica s svojim edinstvenim vizualnim jezikom razmišlja o tem, da je ta odnos lahko obenem konfrontacijski in simbiotski. V tem delu se zdi, kot da naravna rast nadvlada nad togimi strukturami, ki jih ustvarja človek, to pa vabi k dialogu med arhitekturnim redom in organsko vitalnostjo. Delo služi kot poetična gesta in tiho opozorilo, opominja nas na krhko ravnovesje, v katerem živimo.

Yun Zhang, rojena leta 1993 na Kitajskem, živi in ​​študira v Lizboni na Portugalskem, kjer razvija svoje raziskovanje in prakso na področju vizualnih umetnosti. Trenutno opravlja doktorski študij risarstva na Fakulteti za likovno umetnost Univerze v Lizboni. Diplomirala je iz vizualnih umetnosti in novih izraznih jezikov – slikarstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Firencah, dodiplomski študij javne umetnosti – stenskih poslikav pa je opravljala na Akademiji za likovno umetnost Tianjin. Razstavljala je v mnogih italijanskih mestih, pa tudi na Kitajskem.