Every Fiber of Their Bodies
Lin Qiqing
Hallway Gallery
On view: May 16 – July 20, 2025
Through labor-intensive processes such as weaving on a handloom, spinning paper yarn, and dyeing with plants, Lin Qiqing explores hidden emotions, struggles, and perseverance with distinctive figurative weaving in her exhibition, Every Fiber of Their Bodies. She incorporates natural fibers such as linen, paper collage, and hand-spun paper yarn made from calligraphy paper and book pages.
Lin investigates through research and experiments with materials, their connection to the human body, to make visible the internal human struggle for existence and our interactions with the world around us. Repeatedly crumpled and smoothed-out handmade mulberry paper bears fine wrinkles reminiscent of human skin. Colors extracted from plants capture the subtle vibrations of nature, while handwoven cloth records the body’s movement and the passage of time.
About the Artist
Lin Qiqing 林 绮晴
(b. 1991, Guangdong, China)
Lin Qiqing(pronounced Chi-Ching) is a textile artist based in New York City. As a former award-winning journalist from China, she tells stories about human relationships, gender, immigration,and language through her distinctive figurative weaving, using hand-spun paper yarn and paper collage.
She graduated with an MFA in Textiles at Parsons School of Design in 2023 and a BA in journalism in 2014.
Qiqing has participated in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program(2025) and residencies at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild(2024), Residency Unlimited(2024), and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2023). Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Wassaic Project, New York Live Arts, Art Gotham Gallery, All Street Gallery, Surface Design Association, and New York Textile Month.
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