Montreal based fashion designer and professor Ying Gao has achieved distinction through her creative ideas
exhibited around the world. She questions our assumptions by combining clothing & fashion
design, product design and media design and explores the construction of
garments. Taking inspiration from the transformations of the social and urban
environment. Design is the medium, situated in the technological and the
textile realm: sensory technologies allow garments to become more poetic and
interactive.
Her work testifies to the profound mutation of the world in which we
live and carries with it a radical critical dimension that transcends
technological experimentation.
Currently showing at
the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney. This work has been carefully created by
hand. It recreates Beijing’s Central business district using delicate white
porcelain sitting atop a bed of rice. Jhou Jie explains that rice come up from
the ground, and the buildings come up from the ground, BUT they are not
natural. Miniature structures and roads are transformed into fantastical
coral-like growths. These forms express the artists view that expansions
mirrors, the insidious spread of a virus. whiterabbitcollection.org/artist/zhou-jie/
