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Textiles (MA)

Minmin Meng

Minmin Meng, as a textile artist, is committed to expressing the emotional language of nature by observing the changes in the environment around her, thus reflecting on 'the relationship between contemporary urban architecture and the natural environment'. As urban planning develops rapidly, people are gradually surrounded by high-rise buildings. In the context of urbanisation, the natural environment, which is disappearing and being replaced, is becoming increasingly distant from us.

The modern spatial structure of urbanisation is gradually eroding the wild ecosystems. The natural environment that we encounter in our daily lives has been transformed into a relentlessly artificial field.

Urban architecture has created a cold living environment, and when people in the city want to look at the distant landscape or the sky, they can only see a fragmented view through the gaps between the buildings. When everything in life has become a man-made object, where are the emotions that should belong to them?

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The expression of emotions is something that Minmin continues to research. Emotions are an inseparable part of human life, like the weather and the unpredictable movement of the next moment. A gradual forgetting of emotions has accompanied the rapid development of technology, and the language of emotions has become a topic of interest for Minmin.


She recognises that not just words convey emotion but also that silent communication can build bridges. She used mixed media, experimenting with different materials and dyeing them to feel the emotions expressed by different colours as they change. Hand weaving is one of the ways in which Minmin creates her works. She is passionate about feeling the irregularity of the threads as they rub against each other and overlap, breaking away from the creation of exquisite handicrafts and returning to feeling everything as it was in the beginning. It's like when you feel the natural environment in its truest form; you can also feel the emotional language it wants to convey compared to the natural environment in the city.

branch weaving
dyed fibres
branch weaving
branch weaving
branch weaving
branch weaving
branch weaving