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ZANE MELLUPE Born 04/11/1981 in Riga. Artist.

1 Biography 2 Conceptual art

Biography Born in 1981 in Riga, Zane Mellupe spent her childhood and youth there. In addition to studying photography, she studied Chinese language and sinology at the University of Latvia. In 2000, Mellupe went to China. After studying theater directing at the Shanghai Theater Academy and a bachelor's degree in Chinese language and literature from Shanghai Teachers' University in 2004, she moved to London, where she earned a master's degree in photojournalism and documentary photography from the University of the Arts in 2007. After graduating from London, she returned to Shanghai in 2007, where she worked at the Island6 Art Center, becoming its creative director in 2009. While working at Island6 from 2007 to 2010, she co-founded the Liu Dao Art Group with Thomas Charvériat. Her success as a Latvian artist working in Shanghai also increased her popularity in Latvia, leading to publications in Latvian and Baltic visual art magazines such as Foto kvartāls [1] and Studijas [2], as well as ArtTerritory. [3] Since 2010, Zane has been working as a curator with Alexei Kuzmin-Karavayev at the ifa gallery and is represented internationally in both Shanghai and Brussels, as well as at art exhibitions throughout Europe, such as Art Paris. [4]

Conceptual art

As a conceptual artist, Zane Mellupe works mainly in photography, where she deconstructs common notions of photography, expanding them both conceptually and working with media materiality. Zane Mellupe formulates her artistic activity as "thinking in pictures". Photography of her installations and mixed media reveals hidden possibilities of interpretation. In her work, she uses image, object and body.