Jiapei Lin
About
Jiapei Lin (Margin) is a London-based multimedia textile artist/ fashion designer who graduated in fashion design from Shih Chien University, currently studying Soft System Textiles at the Royal College of Art. Her practice spans womenswear design, sustainable fabrics and bio-materials design.
Jiapei’s practice focuses on observing the connections between people’s senses, emotions and nature. Her work aims to poeticise textiles, mobilise the senses through mixed media, weaving and innovative fabrics, and express the infinity of art through the finite nature of the body. Meanwhile, she combines textiles design with sustainable practices by integrating new technologies, chemical and biological sciences, proposing and prototyping new architectures for responsive and adaptive textiles, hoping to push the boundaries inherent in the textile industry and rediscover new directions in textile art.
She hopes that her work will enable people to challenge current patterns of production and use, balance the functional and artistic values of textiles design and maintain a permanent exchange.
Statement
Title： The Redemption of Narcissus
“Introspection is the first sprout of love and thought.”
Introspection is salvation,
Give us a glimpse,
Love is a turbulence without torture,
Love is a danger without calamity,
Love is a chaos without anxiety,
Gaze appears in invisible places.
The word “narcissism” comes from the sad story of narcissus, a beautiful young man in ancient Greek mythology. Psychiatrists use “narcissism” to describe the phenomenon of a person falling in love with self: the individual’s limited understanding of empathy prevents him or her from forming intimate relationships with others. Self-cognition is fragmented, while introspection realizes the process of fragmentation to establish a complete ego, while introspection in each relationship is a process of inward establishment and outward repair.
The artwork aims to reflect on the inner psychological behaviour of “introspection” through textiles (bandages), emphasizing its importance for intimacy and self-building. meanwhile, the performance art in the work uses the main gestures of touch as the only guide to finding the connection between introspection and emotional repair, implying the need for introspection in intimacy.
Process
