Qian Ye

Qian Ye, born in Shanghai, China in 1997, graduated from King's College London in 2022 with a Master's degree in Arts, now living in London. She published her collected poems, How Many Butterflies (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House) in 2018. Her solo exhibition of "Poetry Labyrinth-Recreation Area on Earth" was held at Shanghai MindImage Art Gallery in 2023. As a poet, Qian Ye demonstrates her artistic creation closely related to her poetry texts. Her artistic works includes paper paintings, installations, and visual interactive art. She uses a combination of Chinese and Western mediums, such as acrylic, pastels, Chinese ink, coffee and Xuan paper as her common media. Her creation is derived from the natural "field" and "consciousness" of her mother tongue - Chinese characters as hieroglyphs, showing the spirit of eastern poetry while questioning the known knowledge, techniques and traditions. Her artistic works focuses on the phenomenology of language, creating an open, white-space art form. Through the dismantling of the meaning pillar and scaffolding, she is indifferent to foreground language, detaching from an experience of clichés, so as to return to the origin of language - linguistic primacy, fission and emergence of human self-language.