Movana Chen

Movana Chen (陳麗雲) is a Hong Kong–based female artist and curator. She is renowned for her unique approach of using shredded magazine papers to knit clothes. She uses a paper-shredder to transform print media into a textile-like material which she knits together to form clothing, containers and structures. Her artworks are a multidisciplinary fusion of media transformation, fashion, performance, and sculpture, which has been presented in exhibitions and events in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, London and Paris.
Early Life and education.
Movana was born in 1974 in Chaozhou, China, she went to Shenzhen with her family in the mid-1980s and then moved to Hong Kong. In the run-up to the handover in 1997, they moved to Singapore, where she started her interest in art and dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. She studied fashion design at the London College of Fashion for a year and returned to Hong Kong and studied accountancy.
In 2005, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Hong Kong. 
In 2007, she finished her Exhibition Studies and Art Curatorship at the Hong Kong Art School.
Career.
She worked as an accountant from 1997 to 2004.
After quitting her job as an accountant, she worked as the curator of Hong Kong's YY9 gallery and is currently an independent curator.
Artworks, style and technique.
Famous for her knitting artwork, Movana uses shredded magazine paper as material and weaves them into art pieces using conventional knitting needles.
Her signature art work is called "Body Container", which is magazine paper weaved into wearable artwork.
The idea of the art work comes from attempting to examine the relationship between clothes and the media and reflecting our use of disposable commodities. She uses magazines published in different languages, which she believes is a way to appreciate different cultures, by turning books and literature into an artistic form.
Unlike conventional and traditional "art" which are created through brush strokes and paint on canvas, Movana adopts strings of paper as her paint and brush to create art pieces. The idea within her art shows the indifference and alienation amongst people, and aims to reduce the distance between individuals and encourage interactions among us all in society. Her exhibition KNITERATURE held in 2013, took two-years in the making and 400 books. Knitting Conversations is one of the artworks in the exhibition, a 15-meter collaborative piece from books and magazines by 150 participants from the ages of five to ninety from across the globe.
Her philosophy is that shredding is a process of transformation, and knitting is a process of creating, and communicating. Knitting is also a way of exploration of the world and ourselves.
A "body container" knitted from shredded Tintin comic books (French version) is estimated to be valued around 150,000 to 200,000 Hong Kong Dollars by Christie's.
Award.
2013: Selected one of the 30 Finalists for the 2012–13 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2012: Selected one of the 30 Finalists for the 2011 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2009: New York Festivals 2009 Film & Video Awards, Finalist Certificate "Close to Culture: Art Faces – movana chen i-CABLE News Ltd., Hong Kong
2008:"40 under 40" creative talents Award, perspective magazine, Hong Kong