Qianwen Xing (Mimi)

Qianwen Xing是一位具有纺织背景的艺术家,目前就读于英国皇家艺术学院。她的创作实践横跨装置艺术与可穿戴艺术,并专注于混合媒介创作。

在叙事驱动下,她的作品围绕结构、材料与色彩展开。她关注不同材料如何唤起特定的感受与意义,以及它们所承载的文化联想与情感共鸣。通过以材料为主导的实验性创作,她借助这些特质来表达关于亲密关系与权力的思考,并将个人经验转化为作品。


Qianwen Xing (Mimi) is an artist with a background in textiles and is currently studying at the Royal College of Art. Her practice spans installation and wearable art. She specialises in mixed-media practice. Driven by storytelling, her work explores structure, material, and colour. She is interested in how different materials can evoke particular feelings and meanings, as well as the cultural associations and emotional resonances they carry. Through material-led experimentation, she uses these qualities to express ideas around intimacy and power, translating personal experiences into work.

The Initial Dinner
Qianwen Xing (Mimi)
297 × 420 mm
Mixed media
2024

The Initial Dinner

这个项目考察了晚宴文化中所嵌入的社会关系与身份认同问题。通过将一套“动物系统”引入人类的进食行为之中,作品以讽刺的方式反映出:在当代晚宴文化里,人们已逐渐失去了面对食物时最本能的反应。

作品被呈现为一座“动物剧场”,其中的食物、纺织品以及场景陈设均由手工制作与搭建而成。

结合了直接的现实感与现场事件的偶发性,这一剧场在三个小时的时间里展开,重构了晚宴聚会的完整过程。在这一环境中,动物不可预测的行为不断介入材料与场域的形成,最终塑造出整个空间。作品中的材料变化同样由动物不确定的行动所决定,从而生成对空间的二次创造。

This project examines the social relationships and questions of identity embedded within dinner party culture. By introducing an animal system into human eating behaviour, the work satirises and reflects on how, within contemporary dinner party culture, people have gradually lost their most instinctive response to food.

The work is presented as an “animal theatre,” in which the food, textiles, and setting are all handmade and constructed.

Combining a direct sense of reality with the contingency of a live event, the theatre unfolds over three hours and reconstructs the full process of a dinner gathering. Within this environment, the animals’ unpredictable behaviour continuously intervenes in the formation of the materials and the site, ultimately shaping the entire space. The material changes within the work are likewise determined by the animals’ uncertain actions, producing a secondary creation of the space.