Movana Chen

Movana Chen was born in Guangdong, China in 1975. She mainly lives and works in Hong Kong. She is an artist, curator and art promoter. Her artwork combines a range of different media and practices including performance, installation and sculpture. Her exhibitions held in worldwide, in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Sicily and the Netherlands.
Personal life
In 1997, She completed Fashion Design Diploma at London college of Fashion. In 2005, She received Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Hong Kong . Moreover, she studied Exhibition Studies and Art Curatorship at the Hong Kong Art School in 2007.
She worked as a curator at YY9 gallery in 2006. She worked hard to provide an art platform for the younger artist.
Art Style
She got the inspiration of her artworks when she shredded all the paper materials in the company where she worked before. Then, she started to use the shredded paper as her artwork materials for knitting the clothes. Her first magazine dress was made of 60 shredded pages of ID magazine.
Concept
To experience the communication between different cultures and identities, she creates the diverse form of “wearing”. She uses magazines, newspapers or books to symbolize the humans’ perceptions inside the media. Plus, she presents her artworks in a performing way as well to show the influences between the human and the society.
Art Works
Body Containers
“Body Containers” is a wearable artwork, shaping as a human body. Once the performer wrapped inside the clothes knitting by shredded magazines, the artwork tells the role of body being an object of media.
There is a symbol of containment and embodiment of the society within the human form. It delivers a message that contours our body into a statement and representation of our thinking and behavior represents individuality from a personal span to the society.
About Travelling into My Bookshelf
The project is the touring art project of Movana Chen since 2009. In the project, she invited worldwide friends to donate books from their different countries as her knitting materials. Through the knitting process, She shows the various communication styles and resources, which were receiving from her friends’ memories.
Exhibitions
2013
KNITerature, ArtisTree, Hong Kong
2011
Travelling into your bookshelf - Paris, Chinart LaGalerie, Paris
Body Containers come to life, K11 art mall, Hong Kong
2009
Travelling into my Bookshelf, Shin Hwa Gallery, Hong Kong
2008
Two-way Communication Beijing, Pekin Fine Arts Beijing, China
Two-way Communication, IFC mall Hong Kong
2007
Play with artbooks-II, Fringe Club Hong Kong
Wear Me Out-II, The 10th Seoul Fringe Festival, HUT Gallery Seoul Korea
2006
Wear Me Out, Fringe Club Hong Kong
2005
Play with artbooks, White Tube Hong Kong

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