2025-2026
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康淑棋 | Shuqi Kang
Selected Works
Works are arranged as a simple index. Each title opens its section below.
| Final installation
Something Passed, Something Remained
- Year
- 2026
- Materials
- Xuan paper body casts, ceramic, hammered aluminium, brass wire
A site-responsive installation considering how pressure, pain, memory and emotion pass through the body while leaving residues behind.
| Process study
Body Casting Experiment
- Year
- 2026
- Materials
- Xuan paper and handmade flour paste
An early casting test using the body's central line as a fragile trace rather than a complete portrait.
| Material study
Genealogy I / Genealogy II
- Year
- 2026
- Materials
- Jujube seeds, metal, thread, found materials
A continuation of research into jujube seeds as forms that shift between family, origin, body, wound and container.
| Material research
Ceramic and Aluminium Studies
- Year
- 2026
- Materials
- Ceramic, hammered aluminium, jujube seeds
Material tests where seed-like forms move between sediment, protection, sharpness and bodily residue.
Artist Statement
Something Passed, Something Remained is an installation composed of Xuan paper body casts, ceramic forms, hammered aluminium pieces and brass wire. Using my ongoing research into jujube seeds, I examine the feminine body and women's lived experience.
I imagine the body as something like a river. Pressure, pain, memory and emotion pass through it, but they do not disappear completely. Some things are carried away, while others settle like deposits in a riverbed.
My practice moves through casting, hanging, firing and assembling to ask how fragile structures can hold what remains. Materials appear as traces: paper as skin, ceramic as sediment, aluminium as both protection and threat, brass wire as quiet connection.
Experience
- 2025-2026 / MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
- 2026 / RCA Sculpture Graduate Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
- 2026 / Tactile Belief, Hockney Gallery, London
- 2026 / Making Ourselves at Home, Museum of the Home, London