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Fanyan Kong

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Fanyan Kong is a multidisciplinary artist from Shanghai and Shanxi, China, currently based in London, UK. 

Working across photography, moving images, sculpture, graphic design, and multimedia installation, Kong’s practice explores the spaces between different cultures, examining how identities are shaped through translation and interaction. At the core of his practice is the transformation of contextual research into immersive art experiences. 

His work draws from a wide range of topics, including the agency of audiences in machine-generated art, the complexities of cultural translation within the framework of post-orientalism, and the growing tensions between data and human behaviour in the digital age.

Through a diverse range of mediums, Kong challenges conventional narratives and creates spaces for reflection on the evolving relationship between technology, culture, and identity.

Fanyan Kong is a multidisciplinary artist from Shanghai and Shanxi, China, curre...

Liminal Space is a multimedia installation that interrogates the ways in which meaning is constructed through perception, experience, and cultural context. Comprising three interdependent elements— two projections, a sculpture, and moving imagery cast onto the gallery wall—the work uses visual distortion and layered symbolism to explore the fluid and often unstable nature of cultural translation. Projected moving images of water pass through a sculptural form before landing on the gallery surfaces, where they appear abstracted, shifting, and in constant transformation. This visual flux serves as a metaphor for the subjective and unpredictable process of interpretation, reflecting how individuals from different cultural backgrounds perceive and assign meaning to symbols in varying ways.

Final work

Resin sculpture on a metal shelf, projection beam go through the sculpture and reflect on the wall of a dark space
Resin sculpture on a metal shelf, projection beam go through the sculpture and reflect on the wall of a dark space

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Liminal Space

Liminal Space is a multimedia installation that interrogates the ways in which meaning is constructed through perception, experience, and cultural context. Comprising three interdependent elements— two projections, a sculpture, and moving imagery cast onto the...

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