Jiacheng FENG
Pioneering, Talent and Creative, Chinese new media artist
Jiacheng FENG
Graduated with a New Media Art & Design major from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2015, FENG is well-versed in leveraging natural elements and lights to create artworks based on personal experiences and emotions, focused on the ties between men, installations, and environments, respectful for nature and determined on reshaping and reconceptualizing art within a space. Believing that instead of a means to reveal and criticize, art should be an actionable and verifiable solution, FENG has been focusing on providing an artistic path to agriculture in the past three years, promoting structural upgrades in certain agricultural sectors through artistic means, capitalizing on the commercial value and market value of artworks, remolding the industry and increasing income for rural households to drive the construction of rural areas with Chinese characteristics and explore a new ecological approach to “building a new countryside”.
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Artworks
HuaChuanTingYuMian画船听雨眠
Jiangnan’s water towns, known in Chinese as “Shui Xiang,” are characterized by traditional buildings, captivating lifestyles, and Wupeng boats, also known as black awning boats, that date back to the Tang Dynasty as the common means of transportation in the water towns. The minute details of all of these highlight a strong atmosphere with human and cultural touches. Wei Zhuang wrote about the picturesque Jiangnan in one of his poems, “More appealing to the eyes the virid spring waters than the blue heavens, you’d enjoy taking a nap in the color-painted boats while listening to the rains.” How moving and vivid these few lines are! Drawing inspiration from “You’d enjoy taking a nap in the color-painted boats while listening to the rains”, this art piece combines the form of a paper boat and technical lights and “paints” the boats with elements local to Chinese Jiangnan water towns by imbuing the mixture of old and new with life.
WuXingWanXiang无形万象
The artwork involves placing ten thousand windmills in a natural environment. Each individual windmill is equipped with a sensor that detects natural wind speed and uses a microcontroller to control the brightness of its lights, thereby visualizing invisible data. As wind speed increases, the windmill's brightness intensifies; conversely, as wind speed decreases, the brightness diminishes accordingly, thus transforming the formless into myriad manifestations.
This piece also expresses the artist's reflections on nature, the environment, and humanity, as well as the pursuit of freedom and the exploration of the self.