Movana Chen
Movana Chen lives and works in both Hong Kong and Lisbon. Her multidisciplinary practice explores communication across cultures. Since 2004, she has been weaving people’s stories through KNITerature – a genre that involves deconstructing and reconstructing meanings by knitting books, maps, and dictionaries. She often shreds and repurposes printed materials in different languages to create sculptural installations that represent new forms of language.
Chen studied at the London College of Fashion and received a BFA from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Hong Kong. Her works are collected by institutions and private collections worldwide, including the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, M+ Museum and CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) in Hong Kong; the Burger Collection in Hong Kong and Switzerland; and the Louis Vuitton Collection in Paris. Her works are also exhibited at the Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai, which opened in December 2023.