Movana Chen

Movana Chen is a Hong Kong-based artist, who lives and works in both Hong Kong and Lisbon. She studied fashion design at the London College of Fashion, UK; Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Hong Kong. Since 2004 she has been weaving people's stories through KNITerature - a genre that involves the deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings and content through knitting books, maps and dictionaries. Chen’s multidisciplinary practice is rooted in the exploration of communication across cultures, often shredding and repurposing dictionaries, maps and books from different languages to create sculptural installations that offer messages of hope and togetherness.