Bi Rongrong

Bi Rongrong

China

 

Born in Ningbo in 1982, currently lives and works in Shanghai. In the past few years, whenever she visits a city, Bi collects local images and, through manually or digitally processing the images, she forms a comprehensive artistic approach that incorporates painting, collage, fabric, video, site-specific installation, and other media. The fragmented patterns and motifs that appear in her work are removed from their original contexts and thrive individually in another way, transforming into new pictorial landscapes in new spaces.

She has collaborated with several important art institutions and took part in numerous public art projects. Institutions she worked with include the Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile in Hong Kong, Shanghai Museum of Glass, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space in Chengdu, and Vanguard Gallery in Shanghai. Public art projects she participated in include the Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB) of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, and Cass Sculpture Foundation in the UK, etc.

Re-encode—Pattern

Linen thread, wool thread, cotton thread, LED components, blended yarn, viscose, video

30%cotton, 50%recycled cotton, 20%nylon, polyester thread, acrylic paint, wax string, copper alloy, polyester

Variable size

2018-2022

 

This series reflects how I work in recent years. Before the Covid pandemic, I was able to visit and stay in different countries because of the annual international residency. These are excellent chances for me to collect ornamental patterns from the local such as surfaces of buildings, posters on the streets, and the fabrics of carpets and clothing. In my opinion, such patterns found in the cities function the same as skin, making the city scrutable and touchable.

During the pandemic, I devoted more of my time to transforming and recoding the patterns collected in recent years. They were transformed into paintings, collages, hand weavings, animations, and unique site-specific art forms.

The series I present in this triennial embody this kind of transformation. The works in this series communicate among themselves and thrive in a shared space, thereby recreating interior and exterior bonds between different patterns and motifs.

Re-encode—Pattern

Linen thread, wool thread, cotton thread, LED components, blended yarn, viscose, video

30%cotton, 50%recycled cotton, 20%nylon, polyester thread, acrylic paint, wax string, copper alloy, polyester

Variable size

2018-2022

 

This series reflects how I work in recent years. Before the Covid pandemic, I was able to visit and stay in different countries because of the annual international residency. These are excellent chances for me to collect ornamental patterns from the local such as surfaces of buildings, posters on the streets, and the fabrics of carpets and clothing. In my opinion, such patterns found in the cities function the same as skin, making the city scrutable and touchable.

During the pandemic, I devoted more of my time to transforming and recoding the patterns collected in recent years. They were transformed into paintings, collages, hand weavings, animations, and unique site-specific art forms.

The series I present in this triennial embody this kind of transformation. The works in this series communicate among themselves and thrive in a shared space, thereby recreating interior and exterior bonds between different patterns and motifs.

Re-encode—Pattern

Linen thread, wool thread, cotton thread, LED components, blended yarn, viscose, video

30%cotton, 50%recycled cotton, 20%nylon, polyester thread, acrylic paint, wax string, copper alloy, polyester

Variable size

2018-2022

 

This series reflects how I work in recent years. Before the Covid pandemic, I was able to visit and stay in different countries because of the annual international residency. These are excellent chances for me to collect ornamental patterns from the local such as surfaces of buildings, posters on the streets, and the fabrics of carpets and clothing. In my opinion, such patterns found in the cities function the same as skin, making the city scrutable and touchable.

During the pandemic, I devoted more of my time to transforming and recoding the patterns collected in recent years. They were transformed into paintings, collages, hand weavings, animations, and unique site-specific art forms.

The series I present in this triennial embody this kind of transformation. The works in this series communicate among themselves and thrive in a shared space, thereby recreating interior and exterior bonds between different patterns and motifs.

Re-encode—Pattern

Linen thread, wool thread, cotton thread, LED components, blended yarn, viscose, video

30%cotton, 50%recycled cotton, 20%nylon, polyester thread, acrylic paint, wax string, copper alloy, polyester

Variable size

2018-2022

 

This series reflects how I work in recent years. Before the Covid pandemic, I was able to visit and stay in different countries because of the annual international residency. These are excellent chances for me to collect ornamental patterns from the local such as surfaces of buildings, posters on the streets, and the fabrics of carpets and clothing. In my opinion, such patterns found in the cities function the same as skin, making the city scrutable and touchable.

During the pandemic, I devoted more of my time to transforming and recoding the patterns collected in recent years. They were transformed into paintings, collages, hand weavings, animations, and unique site-specific art forms.

The series I present in this triennial embody this kind of transformation. The works in this series communicate among themselves and thrive in a shared space, thereby recreating interior and exterior bonds between different patterns and motifs.

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