Bio
Feiyang Zhang is a storyteller and designer working in the field of costume, film and editorial work. During her studies she was admitted to the fashion department at The Art Institute of Chicago under Nick Cave in 2015 and recently received her MA at Royal College of Art in.
As an artist who is obsessed with the imagination of utopian and dystopian futures, Feiyang wishes to start from the stage of escaping from the real world, with a reinforced sense of our physical bodies.
Her work focuses on how harmful particles can appear as invisible, but break through our immune system and affect our whole body. Feiyang wishes to show the dilemma between control and lack of control through body movement, performance and costumes that could define the characters for an imaginary future.
Based in London and New York, Feiyang specialises in textile and innovation design including embroidery design, character design and building up virtual worlds.
What is one thing you'd like our readers to know about you?
I am a recent graduate from the MA Textile program at the Royal College of Art. I would consider myself a storyteller and designer working in costume, film, and editorial work. During my undergraduate studies, I was admitted to the fashion department at The Art Institute of Chicago under Nick Cave in 2015. After graduation, I have worked as a freelance designer for Vivienne Tam and Sachin & Babi.
Based in London and New York, I specialize in textile and innovation design, including embroidery design, character design, and building up virtual worlds. I am seeking opportunities to build a career in film, television, opera, and home entertainment production.
What is your biggest source of inspiration?
As an artist obsessed with the imagination of utopian and dystopian futures, novels written by Italo Calvino, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka were my most significant source of inspiration. For my works, I wish to start from the stage of escaping from the real world, with a reinforced sense of our physical bodies. As a result, I would also write my own dystopian stories and create weird characters that could live in there.
My current studies focus on how harmful particles can appear invisible but breakthrough our immune system and affect our whole body. I wish to show the dilemma between control and lack of control through body movement, performance, and costumes that could define the characters' imaginary futures.
Why do you create and how has your art practice affected your life?
Creating my own stories and characters could respond to my manifesto of creating an imaginative utopian/dystopian future. Due to the impact of the pandemic, the world I've been living in changed beyond recognition. Sometimes I would stay inside for days without going out, thinking about the good old days when we could go wherever we wanted. I could escape from the real world by working and creating in order to stay calm and optimistic in my own "happy ever afterworld."
