Liu Jiachen

Liu Jiachen, a Wuhan native from Hubei province, is a lecturer of the Department of Fiber Art at the School of Sculpture and Public Art, China Academy of Art (CAA). She is now living and working in Hangzhou. She Received her PhD in Fiber Art Practice and Theory from CAA, and Master's degree in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was selected as the 2018 “Visual Arts Fellow of the Year” by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation in Chicago, USA.

Fiber Art Installation “Constructing ‘Scenery’” won the “Lin Fengmian Creation Gold Award.” The digital woven artwork “Light of Fire /The Water in Sea" was exhibited at the 16th International Tapestry Triennial and permanently collected by the Central Museum of Textiles in Poland. Liu Jiachen's works have been showcased in numerous domestic and international art exhibitions, including those in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Poland, and other countries. In 2021, she held a solo exhibition, “Rough Translation” at Manifasto Gallery (USA), and in 2019, her works were represented by LVS Gallery at the Asian Youth Art Festival. Her practice explores fiber art as a digitally mediated medium, combining hand weaving with digital techniques to construct reality through virtual means. Through her works, she also invites contemplation on the information age.




Trapped Beast.Wool yarn, polyester thread, plastic rope, metal wire, silk organza, polyester thread, display screen, LED beads, acrylic, digital weaving, mixed media collage, embroidery. 500x500x400 cm.2025
“Trapped Beast”is a contemporary fiber art installation that integrates multiple mediums and techniques including digital weaving, mixed media collage, and embroidery, constructing a tactile space that oscillates between the illusory and the real. Here, thread becomes an extension of data, and imagery a vessel for perception. Technology is no longer merely a tool, but a language, a breathing texture. The work takes on a semicircular structure, resembling an unfinished looped program—closed yet retaining computational potential. It evokes both a logical recursion and an inescapable path within memory. As viewers step inside, they enter a data-driven sensory field where body and fabric, light and shadow interweave, generating new states of being within an unstable order. Images, deconstructed and reconfigured through digital weaving algorithms, dissolve into stratified color blocks. The hues expand rhythmically like respiring grids in a pixel matrix—their boundaries soft yet impenetrable. Here, technology produces not only vision but also constraint and rhythm. “
“Trapped Beast”is not a static object but an algorithmic process in flux, a simulated cosmos for the senses to capture. When viewers enter, they cease to be mere observers and instead become nodes—entities both perceived and perceiving. Their movement alters light and shadow, activating the work’s embedded structural logic.
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