LAB ART PRIZE
Artists selections: January 14, 2026
Huiyuan Zhang United Kingdom Mix Media

Artwork title : The Wind Wove Her Longing

Year: 2024
Medium: Ceramics, textile weaving; installation art
Dimensions: H 180 × W 150 × D 25 cm
Price: £1500
 
This installation reflects the quiet yet intense longing of women during World War II. While men were sent to distant battlefields, the women left behind could only gaze toward the sea, carrying their thoughts and fears across the horizon. The woven elements represent emotional threads
of waiting, hope, and uncertainty, while the lighthouse in the ceramic panel symbolizes guidance and
the distant promise of return. The work captures the tenderness and endurance of longing—how love
persists through separation, tides, and time, and how memory weaves itself into both domestic space
and the vastness of the ocean.