Qianyu Chen
About
Qianyu Chen is an multimedia visual designer. After studying oil painting as her undergraduate major, she pursued further education in visual communication, aiming to expand her creative approach through diverse media.
She is fascinated by concepts of fluidity, liminality, and nomadism, focusing on the subtle and fleeting vibrations of experience. Through her multimedia practice, she seeks to propose “Another Possible World of the Other” by exploring materials, forms, and experiences of perception.
Entangled Poetic of the Cracks is an multimedia project that investigates how women’s labour is obscured within the divide between public and private spheres, through the lens of material ecofeminism. Drawing on Karen Barad’s concepts of entanglement and intra-action, it challenges the binaries of nature/culture and public/private. Employing metaphors ranging from weeds to tiny organisms, the project materializes through code, knitting, painting, and spatial installation, forming a feminist language that reveals hidden labour as agentic and generative. The outcomes—a generative typeface tool, knitted fabric, and painting installation—together create a poetic threshold space where obscured labour takes center stage.
“I am rooted, but I flow.”
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