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Drawing from her background in filmmaking, Zeta Gao directs her work towards familial relationships, childhood trauma, a friend’s death, and past life regression. She creates an archetypical experience of traumatizing narratives based on her hypnosis. Gao approaches her work through a lens of Eastern and Western art, as well as spiritual traditions such as reincarnation as described by Zen Buddhism and Christian mysticism.
In her current work, Gao puts her vision of past life regression seen under hypnosis into the world of Virtual Reality by painting with 3-D brushes. She creates an immersive experience and also stirs a feeling that is qualitatively new. She connects strongly with the idea of escaping into another dimension completely, and wants viewers to be able to find their own way to that surreal vision of self-discovery, to have their own aesthetic, artistic, and conceptual revelation.