Fan Bangyu

Fan Bangyu moves fluidly among sculpture, installation, sound, assemblage, and kinetic media. Their work unfolds like a non-linear narrative, where visual, auditory, and olfactory elements coalesce to form uncanny sensory environments. Drawing on working-class and queer identities, Fan manipulates found objects and organic materials—like decomposing instruments or decayed textiles—into sculptural puzzles that collapse and intertwine, resisting easy categorization. Their installations often evoke a kind of disordered poetry, opening sensory space that undermines narrative coherence and fixed meaning. Sound plays a central role in their practice: by weaving chaotic auditory textures and kinetic motion into sculptural forms, Fan challenges norms of harmony, unsettling viewers' expectations and inviting alternative interpretations of space and narrative. ...

Studio/Chapple is a contemporary art gallery and project space in Deptford, South-East London. Positioned at the intersection between contemporary emerging art, club culture and sonic production, the gallery activates a unique conversation that highlights the relationship between sonic and and visual artistic ecologies.