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Kong Qianyang (b. 1998, Ningbo) is a London-based Chinese artist. She has lived 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. 

Her works are dedicated to revitalizing abandoned dusty memories and resonate with the Ruin that exists in her hometwon by perceiving herself as a particle of dust. Ruin Art and decline culture heritage serve as the beams and columns constrcuting her practice.
Fascinated by landscapes, artifacts, and architecture that bear witness to geographical shifts, changing social ideologies, and evolving residential environments, she strives to bridge the void from the past to the present, recontextualizing these relics through a contemporary lens.

To feel the aesthetic of ruin is to lay one's body within the decay, becoming part of the broken tiles. The moment when gazing at the ruin, an inner desolate voice is heard and echoed. 

Concrete architecture stands as an unwavering symbol and propagates entrenched social and political ideologies, cast in enduring solidity. In contrast, fabric, ever in flux, dances with the wind and yields to the water. The juxtaposition of both materials serves to analyze the fluidity between softness and rigidity, while also looking beyond their inherent properties that shape perception.

                            
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