New artist-in-residence: Jiajia Qi

Jiajia Qi, Maybe Very Happy, 2022

Jiajia Qi is a Netherlands-based Chinese artist. Her work is just like dust in the room, which has no recognizable outline and is thought to be in the wrong place. It always stands in the middle of its unrelated things, with no recognized past and no predictable future; it is not something that is ‘beyond or next’ to viewers, but rather something ‘within or part’ of them. Her work blurs the boundaries between artificial and natural, interior and exterior, fictional and factual, in order to stimulate viewers to compare what their surroundings offer up for observation and what they actually observe. She creates experiential site-specific installations that incorporate interactive settings, spatial structures, and sculptural elements. 

During the residency at Lottozero she will approach several weaving techniques, testing different woven structures, in order to create a room-size textile installation, playing with the transparency of the threads and the darkness of the environment.