Yudie Zhang (Ida) (b.2001) is an artist working with photography and installation. Her work constructs procedural systems that simulate belief without requiring belief itself. Combining images, objects, and instructions, her projects function as interfaces that organize trust, attention, and participation.
Drawing from scientific diagrams, folk tools, and pseudo-instructional formats, Zhang employs rule-based structures such as classification, divination, repetition, and experiment. These systems remain operational even when their logic appears unstable or absurd.
Across her work, images establish trust while objects prompt engagement. Viewers are invited to act, wait, repeat, or comply, encountering belief as something enacted, deferred, and never fully resolved.