Miranda Fengyuan Zhang approaches fabric as a vibrant storyteller, crafting woven landscapes that explore identity, memory, and the interplay between tradition and modernity. Her work elevates textile beyond craft, positioning it as a profound medium for personal and collective storytelling. Drawing from traditional Chinese weaving techniques and her own transnational experiences, Zhang constructs dense, layered works that blur the line between painting and sculpture. Color, texture, and thread become narrative tools—each strand charged with emotion, place, and history. Her abstract forms often suggest organic movement, evoking landscapes, bodies, or elemental forces in flux. Zhang’s process is meditative yet labor-intensive, rooted in repetition and intuition. Through this physical engagement, her works embody both presence and absence—materializing what is often invisible: the rhythms of memory, displacement, and resilience. She embraces imperfection, allowing irregularities to surface as vital parts of the work’s meaning. Her practice resists easy categorization, instead opening a space where textile becomes a portal into feeling, remembrance, and transformation. Zhang invites viewers to read fabric as language—one that speaks in loops, knots, and gradients, bridging personal history and collective texture with quiet power. ...
