Qingran Liu
About
QingRan Liu(b.2000 CHINA)
Qingran Liu is a textile designer in print and knit direction.
Throughout her time at the Royal College of Art, she has started experimenting further with knitting techniques, refining her use of domestic and Dubied knitting machines, and she enjoys combining different printing and knitting techniques to produce textiles that can be used as a vehicle for emotion.
She is passionate about exploring the potential of knitted and printed fabrics and is committed to the development of the combination of these two technologies. She actively experiments with the combination of different materials and prints, injecting her own understanding of humanity, identity and memory into her designs, and she strives to incorporate deep emotions into the development of fabrics and put them to use in fashion and interior design area.
Her project “The Non-returnable One:A Study of memory based on photographic ” started from the research of Characteristics of photographs: In one still photo there will be only one event and time and space, compared with verbal memory, see a photo doesn’t give more information and explanation, but has clear colors and shapes, you can see a complete description of the reality at that moment, these photos can make people ignore the time, and bring intuitive feelings and memories.
Her was inspired by family photo albums from many years ago: when I look at these photos, the people appearing in them are familiar and young, I can only understand that scene through what I know about them for now , and then over time, these stories I reasoned out become blurred and shaped again, the family’s memories end up on me, and myself is a filter for these memories and relationships.
In her work, she wants the textile to be a carrier of emotions and links to the society, before the memory fades, the fragments become abstract and integrated into the knitting pieces, she wants to creat a beautiful atmosphere between the reality and the imagination, restrained, suppressed and soft.
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