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Movana Chen

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Movana Chen is a Hong Kong-based artist and curator. She studied fashion design at the London colleg...

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Movana Chen

Joined In 2010

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About the artist

Movana Chen

Joined In 2010

(3 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION

Movana Chen is a Hong Kong-based artist and curator. She studied fashion design at the London college of Fashion in 1997 and graduated Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal melbourne Institute of Technology in 2005. She also studied exhibition art curatorship at the Hong Kong Art School. Since 2005, she has been a curator at the YY9 Gallery in Hong Kong and is also an independent curator using a variety of venues. Her work is a multi-disciplinary fusion of media transformation, fashion, performance, installation and sculpture, which has been presented in diverse exhibitions and festivals events in Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai.

Since 2004, I have been making "magazine clothes" which are made of old magazines. My idea is to play with deconstrcting and reconstructing the shredded magazine papers, so that a certain meaning and content is given to these "magazine clothes".

I focus on exploring "wearable art" by creating "body containers" sculptures, which are to examine the relationship between clothes and the media, and also to reflect on our consumption of disposable commodities. Through the knitting of these multi-languages hidden with the magazine papers, we learn about communication. It creates an alt...

EDUCATION

2007
Professional Certificate in ExhibitionStudies and Art Curatorship
(Hong Kong Art School)

2005
Bachelor of Arts Fine Art Australia RMIT University
(Hong Kong Art School)

1997
Fashion Design Certificate The London College of Fashion
(London)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Travelling into my Bookshelf
(Shin Hwa Gallery Hong Kong)

2008
Two-way communication Beijing
(Pekin fine arts, Beijing, China)

Two-way communication
(IFC, Hong Kong)

2007
Play with artbooks-II
(Fringe Club, Hong Kong)

Wear Me out-II
(The 10th Seoul Fringe Festival, Seoul, Korea)

2006
Wear Me Out
(Fringe Club, Hong Kong)

2005
Play with artbooks
(White tube, Hong Kong)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Fashion Ethics "Wear Good" 2009 Cross Genre Exhibition
(Gyeonggi MoMA Korea)

Mixed Media and Body Containers on Display at The Opposite House
(the opposite house Swire Hotel Beijing)

"Endless" art exhibition
(Chow Sang Sang Central Store Hong Kong)

2008
Beyond the Body
(Galerie helene Lamarque Miami)

THE TABLE
(Chater Garden Hong Kong)

"GREEDY" conceptual art exhibi...