Kong Qian-yang
Kong Qianyang (b. 1998, Ningbo) is a London-based Chinese artist whose works span across sculpture, photography, poem and textile. She has been living in the UK since 2017. From 2017 to 2020, she studied Knitwear for Fashion at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. After moving to London in 2021, she pursued and received a Master’s degree in Textiles at the Royal College of Art in 2023.
Ruin is the centre of her practice. The ruins laid out an incomplete chronicle that has written the causality of existential ruptures and illuminates the future sequences, from which her practice stems a strong affinity with. Amid the ruins, she perceives herself as the broken masonry, stuccoed since two centuries ago, holding the lingering warmth of her ancestors’ palms; as the void suspended between the brackets and façades of the teetering buildings, bearing witness to the cracks forming in the mortise-and-tenon joints of ancient architecture; as a particle of dust, drifting here and there, destined to be swept away by the inevitable tide.
Fascinated by landscapes, artifacts and craftsmanship, and architecture that testify to geographical shifts, changing social ideologies, and evolving residential environments, she strives to recontextualize those relics through a contemporary lens.
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