Jingkun Qi
Something In Between
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BIO
My creative research involves prints, sketches and installations to explore the impact of technology on the environment and our bodies. Specifically, I am interested in creating some blurred images between biology and technology, organic and mechanical boundaries, so that the audience can think about the impact of this merged image. This interest urges me to create prints and installations with mechanical and natural forms, and to explore the themes of mutation, metamorphosis and regeneration/ technical dichotomy. In my works, I often cite elements in nature, fictional science and biological forms, and at the same time imply the imaginary world of mythical or religious cosmology. Images often drift between abstraction and expression, so that the narrative and correlation of images can be used to metaphor the real world, while maintaining an open ending. The combination of mechanical and organic language is intended to point the audience to the contemporary context. The progress of technology is rapidly changing our relationship with the natural world, biology and our own body.
Awards
●Network Highest Popularity Award in the 2nd National Excellent Works Exhibition of “Integration” in Colleges and Universities - Organising Committee of Guangdong Youth Art Association (11/2020);
●Selectee Award in the 3rd Exhibition of Contemporary International Ink Design - Beijing Design Society (09/2020);
●Excellent Award in the 1st China-Orient Cultural Creation Competition – Beijing Palace Museum Cultural Research Center, Shanghai Creative Culture Research Institute (04/2020);
●Third Award in the 11th Annual Exhibition of Artworks in Chinese Colleges and Universities – Beijing Sino-foreign Visual Arts Academy (03/2020);
●Excellent Award in the 1st Youth Art Promotion Exhibition of Shanxi Province –Taiyuan Art Museum (01/2020);
Selectee (Mayday) in the Almanac of Chinese Contemporary College Students’ works of Art – the Almanac of Chinese Contemporary College Students’ works of Art (12/2019);
●Excellent Award in the Illustration in Media -- National Print Illustration Exhibition –Chinese National Artists’ Association (10/2019);
●Excellent Award in the 2nd Excellent Miniature Print Exhibition of Art Festival in Shanxi Province – The second art festival of Shanxi (09/2019);
●Excellent Award in the 9th Beijing International Design Week – Beijing Design Society, Capital Normal University (09/2019);
●Merit Student – Shanxi University (05/2019);
●Excellent Award in the 24th New Artist Exhibition of Henan Province – Henan Artists’ Association (04/2019);
●Outstanding Student Cadres – Shanxi University (05/2018).
Skills & Experience
- Project 1: Individual Creation of Lithograph: Mayday
- Project 2: Research on Watermark Print Materials and Technology & Key Laboratory Project of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
- Project 3: 9 BJDW Ink work and pattern
- Li, N., Qi, J. Characteristics of Creative Activities of Female Print Artists [N]. China Art Weekly, 2020-05-09 (24). Qi, J. (2020). The Phenomenon of Chinese Female Print Artists’ Creative Activities in the 13th National Exhibition of Fine Arts. In: The
- Qi, J. (2020). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research. In: The 4th International Conference on Literary Studies: Science, Experience, Education, Online Meeting 27-28 August 2020.
Working Process
DUSTY Stone-Lithograph 280mm*360mm 2023
The subject I am concerned about is the body, biology or life. To a certain extent, the body is not limited to the human body, but I regard all the biological parts as the body, and people will no longer be the subject. Full of sharp creatures, here may be plants or other unknown creatures, in contrast to soft but resilient nets. This kind of two kinds of things with different senses together form a dramatic and ambiguous scene.
Future Paradigm stone-lithograph 250mm*340mm 2023
I extract elements from natural elements, as shown in the left picture: caterpillar is a structure similar to single-celled organisms; The shape of sand dunes and mountains is more suitable for moving and adapting to environmental changes; Gene editing technology; Heaven: in the context of the Quadrivium, "heaven" often refs to astronomy and the study of celestial bodies and their movements. And try to establish a paradigm of future creatures. This is not only a kind of imagination for the future and post-mankind, but also a wake-up call for people to pay attention to the changes that may be brought about by the influence of science and technology on human beings and the environment.
Apocalypse STONE-LITHOGRAPH 270MM*380MM 2023
I believe that as an artist, you need to have keen insight, insight into those feelings that others ignore in life experience, and even insight into the truth. Therefore, part of the origins of some of my illustrations also come from my experience and experience. For example, sometimes my subconscious will emerge in my dreams, or guide me to pay attention to those thoughts and feelings that I ignore. I think that in today's society, not only artists should pay attention to our own social environment, spirit and psychological world, but also most people should be alert. Because people rely too much on the landscape society created by capitalism, blindly pursue the created desires, and at the same time indulge in the trap of comfort and ease, forgetting what we really need as ourselves.
Jingkun Qi
Something In Between
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