In the painting "Soft Borders", 2020 the image of kilim appears dominant, although on closer inspection, only fragments of each pattern materialise, the composition is quite fractured, and its pyramid-like pattern alludes to an AI anatomical map devised by the AI Now Institute (NYU) and specifically the Sierpinski fractal. This raises the question of how much information is needed to represent something and what assumptions come with perception. Across the painting Zhang inserts black and white drawings of mountains reminiscent of Chinese landscape paintings, but in actual fact the mountain peaks trace country borders where there has been political conflict: borders between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; North and South Korea; China and India; and finally Russia and the Crimea. This is Zhang’s most overtly political painting in the exhibition, alluding to geopolitical border conflicts that arise out of what are natural geological formations and the global migrant and refugee crisis.