Movana Chen - Knitted Paper Artist
Movana Chen (陳麗雲) is a Hong Kong–based female artist and curator who has been weaving people’s stories — literally — for more than a decade. In her ongoing project, Travelling into Your Bookshelf, she makes art works from books that she collects as gifts from people she meets on her travels around the world. After reading the books — at least those that are in languages she understands — she shreds them and then glues the thin shredded pieces together to make stronger material that she knits into pieces that can be either worn or displayed. The results that emerge from this unique creative process are delicately striking and intriguing. Her wearable pieces — she calls them ‘body containers’ — are cylinders of neatly knitted paper that cover the entire body and head, with a tube that extends from the top of the head and hangs like an elephant’s trunk over the body. The idea, she explains, is to reflect how people are constantly hoovering up and absorbing ideas and inspiration from the outside world. By weaving their chosen books together, she creates a form of communication — ‘like a hidden code’ — between all the people who contribute to her work.
Click through to see more of her amazing knitted artwork here - Morvana Chen